Munem Wasif

Munem Wasif’s photography, moving images, and installations are poetic examinations of the relationships of people to lands. Wasif embeds himself within the spaces and narratives that inform his images and films. At the same time, a wandering openness to the possibilities of chance encounters welcome spontaneity into his black and white studies of moments where memory and history interlace with the present to produce an expansive representation of time. Wasif cultivates this temporal disorientation further in landscapes where contemporary and historical indications of human intervention are absent. Immersed in Wasif’s images, traces of existence only become apparent through close observation. Out of the varied grey tones, stories of human and ecological perseverance emerge.