In an Insta-live session hosted on the 7th of Oct. Risham spoke with Zahra about the impact of Lahore on her practice, her fascination with the history of the region and the key moments that have shaped her career. In case you missed it - you can catch the talk on @artdivvy’s Instagram feed. https://www.instagram.com/artdivvy/
Risham has a diverse art practice in which painting and other mediums are employed to explore questions of history, sociology, and politics. Living in any big metropolis like Lahore, she has continuously experienced a momentous ‘urban transition.’ Her native city plays a pivotal role in her work, as do related inquiries into what the colonial history of the region means to today’s global south. She explores these questions using her painting as pieces of a greater, often global context through installation and engages objects, borders, margins, frames with social reference and connotation. Her use of fabric, embroidery, found objects, along with her painting speak about her connection with the personal, as well as historical, weaving in history with the present moment.
Risham Syed is a visual artist who is heading the Visual Arts Department at the School of Visual Arts & Design, Beaconhouse National University, Lahore, Pakistan. She is a graduate of the National College of Arts, Lahore and has an MA from the Royal College of Art, London. Syed has shown extensively in major national and international exhibitions including the Manchester Art Gallery, ABRAAJ Capital Art Prize, Dubai, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, Asia Pacific Triennial Brisbane, Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art, China, Mohatta Palace Museum, Karachi, National Gallery of Art, Islamabad, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, Harris Museum, Preston, Barbican Center, London and the Fukuoka Triennial, Japan.
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