میں اپنی ماں کی بیٹی ہوں | I am my mother’s daughter
Farheen Haq
August 1 - September 26, 2026
Circulated by the Campbell River Art Gallery
Curated by Haema Sivanesan & Jenelle M. Pasiechnik
Generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Circulation and Touring
An exhibition by Farheen Haq featuring video, sculptural installation, and lens-based work. It celebrates the resilience and knowledge systems of Haq’s mother who arrived in Canada in 1970 after an arranged marriage to her husband, to settle in the Niagara region (Ontario), Haudenosaunee Territory. The exhibition weaves together intergenerational relationships, connecting the experience of the artist’s mother with HaQ’s experience as a child of that union and subsequently, its impact on her own experience as a mother. The artist’s work of inner housekeeping includes personal journeys through a family’s past as a way of moving forward, and political reconciliations determined by the territories on which she and her family arrived as guests. The artist explores how she carries the past and how she determines its legacy into the future.
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Farheen Haq (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist living and working on unceded Lekwungen territory (Victoria, BC). She was born and raised on Haudenosanee territory (Niagara region, Ontario) amongst a tight-knit Muslim community. Her family roots are from Bihar, India and Karachi, Pakistan. Farheen works with video, textile, installation and performance to explore personal, familial, cultural and political reconciliations. Farheen’s current work is focused on the teachings of the Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb and how it can be applied to settler-Indigenous relationships on Turtle Island through culture making and ceremony.
She has exhibited her work in galleries and festivals throughout Canada and internationally including New York, Paris, Buenos Aires, Lahore, Hungary, and Romania. Recent exhibitions include I am my mother’s daughter at the Art Gallery of Hamilton (2023) and The Reach Gallery, Abbotsford (2024), Sentirse en Casa at Casa Cultura Gallery, Medellin Colombia (2018), Being Home at the Comox Valley Art Gallery (2015), Fashionality at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection (2012), Collected Resonance at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (2011), The Emperor’s New Clothes at the Talwar Gallery, New York (2009), and Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, Miami (2008). Farheen received her BA in International Development (1998) from the University of Toronto, her BEd (2000) from the University of Ottawa and her MFA in Visual Arts (2005) from York University. In 2014, Farheen was nominated for Canada’s pre-eminent Sobey Art Award.
Image: Still from Drinking from my mother's saucer, 2015 (in collaboration with France Trepanier)