How I Grew A Moustache (Work In Progress)

In a pursuit of better understanding her father, Riwa finds a letter he sent to his own late dad. With this discovery, she unlocks a quest that travels through timelines and across conversations with family members, piecing together a puzzle. Pulling in puppetry, silhouettes, and verbatim audio, How I Grew a Moustache explores how grief and silence travel across generations, and what it means to inherit stories that are left untold. At its heart, the work asks how diasporic families carry love, loss and memory across time.

“The elegance with which Riwa traveled through and compressed time was extraordinary. Grief and loss often feel tied to specific moments, but Riwa managed to show how something that happened 50 years ago to someone else can still be happening to us in the present.” – Audience member

This event is part of Whitechapel Gallery’s Backyard Biennial.