ALL THESE FACES ARE MINE (2024)

Originally a series of images from 2021, All These Faces Are Mine was reimagined as a gallery exhibition and installation performance art piece at HAAM Gallery in Lahore in 2024. The exhibition was curated by Talal Faisal Ismaili and featured artworks by Talal, Farwa Rizvi, Hamza Rana, and Yumna, in addition to four of my short films, the original image series as a video, and an interactive work inviting audience to put their own faces in the character’s bodies.

The performance was an hour long installation type piece in which I became each of the characters one by one, interacting with the exhibition along the way. The piece meant to explore the idea of clothes as skins, with each character’s costume displayed on a podium before and after the performance.

Now (2025), All These Faces Are Mine refers to just the performance piece where Gillian transforms into each character one by one. It was performed again at “Cycles of Change,” one of Dubai’s first exhibitions of performance art at Bayt Almamzar, and at World Art Dubai with artists Thierry Chebab and Yordan Medina sketching and painting the transformations live. These both took place in April, 2025.