Rania works across sculpture, sound and voice to explore diasporic identity, cultural memory and belonging. Drawing upon her family's migration from Pakistan to the UK, she explores themes of motherhood, care and the often unseen labour carried by women across generations. As a mixed-race descendant, she is interested in how diasporic communities navigate heritage and cultural inheritance, while questioning her own place within these histories.
Using found materials, old necklaces and domestic objects, she draws upon traditions of preservation and passing down objects within Pakistani culture. Through processes of collecting, reforming and reassembling, her work attends to what is preserved, what is lost and what is inherited.
Voice and sound are used as vessels for memory. Layered recordings travel between speakers, combining fragments of song, breath and sounds generated through interactions with found objects. Filling the gallery space with echoes and reverberations, the work creates a sense of presence and absence, tracing the ways stories and cultural knowledge continue to travel across time and distance.