Undergraduate Degree Show
Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture
Karachi,
2015
Panorama view of installation
Thiese paintings were produced during my undergraduate degree at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture. My interest in documenting and cataloging archival images to address identity and colonial influences, murmuring through language, costume and geography, has followed throughout my practice.
“At times I truly wonder, does my minority status give off such apparent vibes? Perhaps it is my voice or perhaps it is the way my mother drapes a sari on me. Visually depicting a culture in its entirety is an uneasy task and with a secluded status and a hazy future, research upon the Parsis of Karachi is sparse. Over this series of paintings, I look through forgotten photographs, lost stories and personal histories I have accumulated of this community I belong to, attempting to understand what I really associate being a Parsi with.”