Young Muslim women from City Heights in San Diego, California use the arts to tackle topics of identity, representation, and dual-consciousness in their installation entitled: “Navigating the Map of Our Selfhood”
Participants from The AjA Project, a City-Heights-based nonprofit (funded by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art), exhibited a large-scale public art piece this month at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park.
The installation, entitled Navigating the Map of Our Selfhood, was the culminating project of AjA’s Collective Voices program, a participatory photography program involving young Muslim women from City Heights. For the past year, participants of Collective Voices have used photography to explore themes of representation, identity, and culture through workshops in conjunction with The AjA Project and The United Women of East Africa.
