Archiving The Patani Queer - Queering The Patani Archive: Visual Map

Visual Arts

Archiving The Patani Queer/Queering The Patani Archive: Visual Map

Digital Collage
This collage and visual map is drawn from research for a master’s thesis titled Archiving the Patani Queers / Queering the Patani Archive. The project situates itself at the intersection of history, auto-ethnography, and a curated exhibition through words. It examines the erasure of Queer Muslim women from Patani’s historiography, tracing queer movements in Islamic Southeast Asia through contemporary texts, historical documents, literature, films, and art installations.
Focusing on the negotiations between self and religion, and the influence of Queer Muslims on one another, the work maps and archives a "queer regional imagination." It challenges the static nature of archives by queering their framework, asking how an archive can be reimagined beyond traditional, oppressive forms. This includes questioning whether anthologizing voices and Sapphic relationships unintentionally mirrors the rigidity of conventional archives.
As a response, the collage elements float freely, representing independent stories and lives. Found archival images and personal photographs are reproduced using chlorophyll prints, cyanotypes, and polaroid lifts to embody the fluid, shape-shifting nature of memory and the interplay of presence and absence.
Artist

Kukasina Ayesha Kubaha

Thailand

Kukasina Ayesha Kubaha is a translator, writer, (aspiring) curator and dreamer of better worlds. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree at the University of Hamburg, where she is pondering on the question of the archive and how to build a counter-archive of Queer Women in Thailand's Deep South through literature, film and contemporary art.

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