The last of what has passed, and the first of which that comes
Of the 4 sculptural installations that my undergraduate thesis comprised of, this work to date holds immense significance for me as I consider it to be that one piece that marks the culmination of 4 years of undergraduate study. For a practitioner whose practice stems from the everyday, seeking immense inspiration from the great Italian […]
Inert Jewels
Multiple embryos casted in cement and immersed in glass tanks containing water.
Monument of callousness
Monument of callousness (2016) Mixed-media installation Dimensions : Variable Motorbike spare parts (Displayed at National Museum Of Pakistan, Karachi in 2017)
I will testify I loved you and I’m not ashamed to be your comrade
70’s being the most vibrant era of our history, rather quoting it as the “Golden era”, it was a time when actually people started to express themselves in numerous ways, indulging with one another on a regular basis whether it be cinemas, political rallies, shrines etc. All this frenzy was a result of a new […]
Your honor is my honor
This work stems from my practice of manipulation of objects from the urban landscape that I belong to and this work also reflects evident elements of my sculptural practice such as use of multiples and transformation in the process that’s an obvious recurring theme in my work. Multiples of a single object, bangles in this […]
One belt, One road
Material : Wheat Grains The objects that I’ve transformed in this work of mine are toys that we come across in markets and roadside stalls. It’s interesting to see how these Chinese imports have flooded the domestic market and have not only threatened to but actually taken over local dynamics & also cleverly adapted to […]
The house that refused to settle
This work was a site specific work produced for a month long residency namely “Mansion” in Lahore that i was a part of. The residency venue was a house belonging to a senior Art professor who had been living there ever since her childhood. The interior space of the house underwent significant changes over the […]
Done and Dusted 2021
Old television set, sawdust, nails, broom and motor) This work was part of a collateral show for the second edition of the “Lahore Biennale” in 2020 The video on loop is the one and only video in history of Pakistan Electronic media that was broadcasted on National Television, of a girl from Swat, Pakistan being […]
Spoils of War 2023
“the wheat sheafed and stooked” after being cut is the preliminary stage of harvest, followed by “Threshing”, that involves the separation of the grains from the chaff.
In memory of Jobs
An aspect of Nietzsche’s critique on Modernism as a non unifying culture is his focus on modern modes of knowledge acquisition and distribution, whereby he argues that modernity did not create a culture, but only a kind of knowledge of culture. The unchecked and scientifically intensified acquisition of knowledge has led men to fill and […]