Sweet Dreams: Two Poems
Home sweet home/meethay ghar, digital photo print on archival hahnemühle satin rag paper, 8.27 x 11.69 inches, Oslo, 2022
Recipe number 1
I dream in green
I dream in white
I dream in pink
I dream in light
Cut in diamonds, slim and thin
Full of color, geometric skin
Soaked
in
s u g a r
cubes of white
Deep fried
sugary delight
Spices blooming in hot oil
Round orange sticky coils
Sticky like chashni
Boiled and reduced
Broken and separated
dreams from reality
Not solid,
Liquid
long strings of crystal,
Crystallising until it hardens,
Hardens so hard, it shatters,
Shatters, into powdered sliver of white
So keep reducing it down,
Slow and patient,
Until it rises
and spills over the pan,
Until it thickens,
And sticks to the pan …
Until it reduces
and is no longer white,
until there is nothing
but brown, rich and plenty
Brick by brick, collage series of 4, digital photo print, hand collaged on archival hahnemühle satin rag paper and millimeter paper,
mounted on aluminum sheet, 8.27 x 11.69 inches each, Oslo, 2022.
Brick by Brick
Buildings, typically housings
building BLOCKS,
building homes
brick by brick
like a ton of bricks,
with crushing weight,
buried under bricks and mortar
The Mansion of my dream, hand collaged on sticker sheet with paperclips, Kharian and Oslo, 2022
Sarah Kazmi, based between Oslo and Karachi, is an interdisciplinary artist and a writer whose artistic practice moves across research and visual production, observing the relationship between food, language and politics. She works with the medium of writing where her texts are visual, rhythmic and performative; often conveyed through a variety of disciplines, which includes sound pieces, photos, video, installations and performance. Projects she is currently working towards are an exhibition titled “Cooking time?” together with a collection of poems titled “et bilde i et bilde” (a picture within a picture) to be published in 2024.
Alongside her artistic practice, Kazmi does policy advocacy for Verdensrommet; an artist-powered mutual support network by/for immigrant artists based in Norway. They work at the intersection of immigration, labor and mutual aid, encouraging new imaginations of the future of cultural work.
Kazmi graduated with an MFA in Art and Public Space from Oslo National Academy of the Arts. She has also served on the editorial board for HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival from 2021-2022.
