The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human
“The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human” 2021 Variable Marble, soil and Lavender (Edition of 3 + AP) My interest in the “everyday” is not merely a “Duchampian Hangover” Its to kind of look at it as a higher belief system comprising of various subsystems like science or religion, […]
Moment de Transition persistent 2023
Mechanical threshing of wheat crop that involves separation of the “Wheat Grain” from the “Wheat Chaff”. The wheat chaff/detritus being emitted from the power-driven threshing machine from the far right, forming a mound of detritus on the left of the picture frame. My effort is as: “An enquiry of current social realities that emanate from […]
Systems and Structures
Every system is something whole. So anything that corresponds to the demands of unity and stability— an atom, a molecule, a crystal, the solar system, the organism, society, a work of art, a theory—may be regarded as a system. Every system forms a whole, but not every whole is a system. A structure is the […]
INVALID (2016)
Performance piece titled “INVALID”, part of the show namely “The 70s: Pakistan’s Radioactive Decade” at the Amin Gulgee Gallery Invalidation, rejection, refusal, dismissal. All these words refer to the act of being denied and this denial, be it in any form, can have disastrous consequences for one’s psychological well-being that goes well beyond mere emotional […]
Die Religion … ist das Opium des Volkes (2019)
The exhibition titled “The Quantum City: Territory, Space, Place” stemmed from Foucault’s interpretation of “Heterotopias” as “spaces comprehending multilayered meanings to places/individuals, be it a cultural, institutional or any other space for that matter. Heterotopic spaces characterize diversity, plurality and multiplicity as Foucault coins it “Worlds within worlds”, disturbing, intense, contradictory and transformative, all within […]
The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets (2021)
…The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar […]
Noise (2021)
Spread out on two floors of the museum, “Noise” is a multifaceted live performance piece embodying three mediums: performance, video and sound – to explore the relationship between language and meaning. The upper portion is the live performance space, situating the performer behind a green top table, clad in a striking black sherwani continually reciting […]
Daatri
“داتری” in “sanskrit” or sickle in English is a general purpose harvesting hand tool. Sickle, one of the most ancient of harvesting tools, consists of a metal blade, usually curved, attached to a short wooden handle. The short handle forces the user to harvest in a stooped or squatting position. Harvesting with a sickle is […]
Dream Flamingo
Dream Flamingo 2022 A pink flamingo is a symbol rarely seen in dreams; a bird rare in its beauty speaks of a coming journey to distant lands and can be seen in dreams by only those who’ve embraced themselves for cardinal changes in life. It’s time for an individual’s dreams to come true. People with […]
Consequences of war
This performance based video is one of my most recent works, that quite embodies my 6 year practice following graduation in 2016. This all encompassing work brings to the forefront my approach towards Art making as an Interdisciplinary artist who enjoys the freedom of navigating across mediums to portray my concerns as an artist/thinker; whose […]