Heads of a Family

Heads of a Family is a collaborative project that reimagines the family archive through their Ivorian and Indian diasporic lenses. Drawing from inherited photographs, the work explores memory, migration, identity, and lineage while questioning who is remembered and how stories are preserved.

Through collage, layering, manipulation, and restaging, the artists reclaim narratives long shaped by colonial legacies and displacement. The notion of the “head of the family” is redefined, shifting focus from patriarchal authority to maternal, symbolic, and often invisible leadership. The result is a reimagined family album of resistance, continuity, and connection.

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