Artist Bio: Azirah Jamal (b. 1998) is a practicing artist and creative educator from Singapore. Her work focuses on the search for her voice and identity. She is currently exploring topics such as gender roles in Islam, family law matters, women’s rights and flaws in its practices and mistranslated arrangements in Islam.
Azirah believes that being a woman in a patriarchal world is tough. Being a minority woman trying to reclaim the space where women voices are silenced and shamed, where misogyny is masked under the name of religion, is harder. Her work is a search about how and where women of Islam fit in the contemporary world. In the contemporary literature on womanhood and family, the Muslim feminist movement is an indigenous voice. However, differences between that and gender roles in Islamic laws have been treated poorly, especially in terms of legal rights. In recent years, the word "gender" has been misused with a wide range of insinuations. It has been concluded that in most scenarios, it has leaned more onto the impartial sociological study by which culture implements its requisite "feminine" and "masculine" role. Azirah aims to examine the contemporary uses of the term "gender" and its implications that could result in women interested in studying rights in their religion. |