Cindy Islam (pseudonym) begins with a core belief that all art-making is an act of listening — whether to our own or collective histories, behaviours, philosophies, traumas, or futures. Working across media, they primarily explore this framework of listening through sound.
Cindy Islam (pseudonym) begins with a core belief that all art-making is an act of listening — whether to our own or collective histories, behaviours, philosophies, traumas, or futures. Working across media, they primarily explore this framework of listening through sound.
From this position, all their art-making investigates how listening can reveal memory, intuition, imagination, and the unseen aspects of existence. Drawing on their experience as an artist displaced by war, they explore how sound can transport us across lands, cultures, and time. Listening, when embodied and identified, becomes a way to access guidance, lessons, belief, and connections to immaterial forces.
From this position, all their art-making investigates how listening can reveal memory, intuition, imagination, and the unseen aspects of existence. Drawing on their experience as an artist displaced by war, they explore how sound can transport us across lands, cultures, and time. Listening, when embodied and identified, becomes a way to access guidance, lessons, belief, and connections to immaterial forces.
Their performances layer subtle sine waves with Arabic prayers, creating spaces inspired by Sufi practices at the intersection of spiritual and sonic ceremonies. These works invite both believers and nonbelievers to experience sound as a living material capable of shifting perception, opening imagination, and creating space for reflection.
Their performances layer subtle sine waves with Arabic prayers, creating spaces inspired by Sufi practices at the intersection of spiritual and sonic ceremonies. These works invite both believers and nonbelievers to experience sound as a living material capable of shifting perception, opening imagination, and creating space for reflection.
Cindy also incorporates the niqab into their performances as a symbol of empowerment and resistance, reflecting autonomy, identity, and the presence of Muslim voices in spaces that often marginalize them. Through sound, prayer, and performance, Cindy Islam’s work bridges culture, politics, spirituality, faith, memory, and ceremonial practices, inviting audiences to experience listening as a profound human experience.
Cindy also incorporates the niqab into their performances as a symbol of empowerment and resistance, reflecting autonomy, identity, and the presence of Muslim voices in spaces that often marginalize them. Through sound, prayer, and performance, Cindy Islam’s work bridges culture, politics, spirituality, faith, memory, and ceremonial practices, inviting audiences to experience listening as a profound human experience.