Aasha John's Woven Photographs at Autograph Explore Memory and Diaspora

Aasha John, a Trinidad-born, London-based artist, presents 'As I Weave' at Autograph in London from 3 to 6 June 2026. The exhibition features woven photographic works created during her Visible Practice Residency, where she cuts, interlaces, and rewews family photographs by hand. Through conversations with family in Trinidad and London, John explores how memory shifts under migration, distance, and time. Fragments of faces dissolve into thread, and silence becomes as powerful as speech. Weaving serves as both method and metaphor for diasporic experience, familial longing, and inherited ritual. The work redefines the archive as rooted in care, labour, and emotional return rather than preservation alone.