As the title ‘Good Morning’ is often a universal wake up call or acknowledgement of a person's existence, it is also a recognition of a right to life. In a world that often seems to be sliding into indifference or a habitual lack of empathy towards human beings, the artist Waheeda Malullah tackles this apathy with both nuance and a cutting playfulness. Drawing on her past use of charcoal as a medium that embodies fragility, Malullah extracts on the implied deterioration of the material to frame her images. Images of children’s clothing appropriated from online catalogues displayed like an undeciphered alphabet that we wilfully ignore to unravel. Together the material and images speak to the suffering imposed on the most vulnerable of society.
Malullah’s video installation and visual language highlights the contradictions between a painful reality and its packaging. The current and historical human struggle between reconstructing ‘life’ and the cycle of human destruction is what we are presented with.
Good morning!
Exhibition opened 25th February 2025
