Fatimah tuggar biography

Which awards has Fatimah Tuggar won?

I combine household implements with varying counterparts, but retaining the objects’ functionality so as not to render them mute. We don't know for a fact whether Fatimah Tuggar is gay, bisexual or straight. Her computer montages and video collages blend videos and photographs taken by the artist with found materials drawn from commercials, magazines, and archival footage.

Tuggar’s work has been widely exhibited at international venues in over twenty-five countries.

Through this juxtaposition, she brings indigenous, vernacular terms into relation with other modern technologies such as the turntable.

In this work, Tuggar turns our ears toward the musical contribution of Barmani Choge, a Hausa oral poet from northern Nigeria who, despite being a popular musician, never had her music released on vinyl.

What underpins such image-making is her preoccupation with the contradictions of globalization, including the cultural convergences and divergences that it affords.

Another important work is Fai-fain Gramophone (2010), an installation that folds language, local music traditions, and sound technologies into conversation with one another.

Tuggar sought to play on the double meaning of fai-fai, drawing two traditions into proximity with each other.

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