Parwana Haydar

Artist Parwana Haydar uses family photographs, archive footage, and childhood objects to reconstruct fragments of her cultural history.

Jerwood x Somerset House Studios resident Parwana Haydar shares the central questions driving her practice and explores how materials, from family photographs to familiar childhood textures and Afghan archive footage, become tools for filling gaps in her personal and cultural narrative. The film introduces Haydar's thoughtful approach to art-making, which seeks to spark questions rather than provide answers. Through her work, Haydar invites viewers to consider their own relationships to memory, displacement, and the stories we inherit.