In Each Other’s Image

Archive Creation Residency

By Serena Lukas Bhandar, Farheen Haq, Shelly Bahl, and Zinnia Naqvi

Image Credit: Shelly Bahl, In Each Other’s Image zine

Artists Serena Lukas Bhandar, Farheen Haq, Shelly Bahl and Zinnia Naqvi held a virtual residency as a part of Rungh’s multi year efforts to activate the Rungh archive. Over a period of several months in the Spring and Summer of 2023, the artists met (virtual and physical) to explore what the archive meant to them and how to engage with Rungh’s archive of printed magazines, posters, images, recordings and other ephemera.

The artists decided to focus upon the text and image of artist Sur Mehat’s “In My Mother’s Image” which was published in Rungh’s Roots Issue (Volume 2, No. 1 & 2) (July 1993), almost 20 years earlier. Their journey was documented via various social media postings, recordings and reflections on Rungh’s Archive Creation Residency page.

The residency led to the artists creating a zine, In Each Other’s Image, which linked the 1990s to the 2020s. The limited-edition zine was published by Rungh as its first print magazine project since Rungh relaunched in 2017. In addition, the pdf version of the zine is being make available to all of Rungh’s readers as a part of the Artist Run Centre in Volume 11, No. 4.

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Credits: Serena Lukas Bhandar, Farheen Haq, Shelly Bahl and Zinnia Naqvi, In Each Other’s Image, Rungh Archive Creation Residency, 2023

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At Rungh, we are committed to these archival activations and creations. We hope you enjoy the journey.

Serena Lukas Bhandar is a writer, witch, and student of Punjabi Sikh and Welsh ancestry.

Farheen Haq is a South Asian Muslim Canadian artist living on unceded Lekwungen territory (Victoria, BC).

Shelly Bahl is an interdisciplinary artist and decolonizing art trailblazer. As an artist, educator and curator, she has been leading and participating in BIPOC and feminist artist-run culture in Toronto and NYC for over 25 years.

Zinnia Naqvi is an interdisciplinary artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal and Tkaronto/Toronto. Her work examines issues of colonialism, cultural translation, language, and gender through the use of photography, video, writing, and archival material. Her works often invite the viewer to question her process and working methods.