In Zineb Sedira’s 2002 video work, Mother Tongue, the artist, her mother and her daughter try to exchange childhood memories in their native languages: French, Arabic and English. Sedira was born in Paris to Algerian parents, and moved to London to study art, where her daughter was born. The work reflects on storytelling as a way to preserve cultural identity across generations.

This is my lived experience.

I have a disability, a movement disorder which impacts my mobility and communication.

I won’t be talking about fear here, fear isn’t something we can control. And that’s for a future piece of writing.

It is unfortunate that society as a whole is mostly infantilising toward people that are perceived as lower than themselves.

Her works engage a broad visual vernacular, including spasming stock market graphs, colonial blueprints, corporate manuals, grassland ecosystems and cobbled together bodies.