Focusing on the ideals of cultural displacement, and looking in to the term ‘identity’, Nava Rizvi a Pakistani expatriate born and raised in UAE has always been a subject to questioning what from the two is meant to be home.
‘Mango Etiquettes’ is a series of images that focuses on everyday actions that are carried on in certain ways – ways in which one may not realise that they are a result of culture or rather tradition. By serving mangoes cut only in cubes in Pakistani public – formal gatherings, this series is a highlighted contradiction – a behind the scenes – of how one would be in an informal situation, at home, at comfort; in peace – relaxing and enjoying their mango on their own, in a comfortable surrounding, something that has become impossible to do as a result of defining, perfecting and eradicating the comfort and ourselves to the likes of others.
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PHOTOGRAPHY:
NAVA RIZVI
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES