Wallpaper of Memories

2016-

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Rooted in her cultural heritage and personal history, Yasmin’s Wallpaper of Memories reimagines the family archive as a site of memory and reflection. Drawing from her personal collection of photographs, she revisits moments from her upbringing as the eldest daughter in a Bangladeshi household in Birmingham, alongside family images from Bangladesh. The work weaves together multiple generations—her parents, grandparents, and herself—reflecting the layered narratives of migration and belonging.
 

“From the wallpaper, sofa covers, to the carpet on the floor—there was a reoccurring factor in all the images. They had a variety of noticeable patterns. I couldn’t not use that!”
 

Yasmin draws upon the decorative patterns found in both Bangladeshi textiles and contemporary English wallpapers, reimagining them as backgrounds within her compositions. These surfaces allow figures and memories to seep into one another, blurring the boundaries between past and present, home and homeland. Domestic interiors—whether in Birmingham or Bangladesh—become shared spaces of continuity, carrying echoes of heritage, adaptation, and care.
 

Wallpaper of Memories becomes both archive and reinterpretation: a meditation on how memory inhabits place, and how the textures of home reveal the intertwined stories of identity, migration, and family across generations.

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