Interwoven Lineages is a series of projection-based self-portraits that explores memory, inheritance, and the lives of women across generations. Using archival photographs of my mother, aunts, and grandmother, I project these family images onto my body and photograph myself within them.
The work is rooted in my experience growing up in Bangladesh, where many expectations surrounding womanhood are learned through observation and everyday life. Through these images, I reflect on the silences, responsibilities, and negotiations that women often carry within family and society. By placing my body within the archive, I create a dialogue between past and present, examining how inherited experiences continue to shape identity.
Rather than reconstructing family history, the project creates a space where memory, absence, and personal experience coexist. The photographs are informed by family archives, conversations with my sisters, and reflections on the emotional histories shared by women across generations.
