Fine Arts Portfolio

My work is an exploration of migration, which has become very common in the present day. Every other person is involved in migration may it be due to work reasons, personal or any other. Shifting from one place to another leaves a mark on the soul and I believe living in a certain environment and surrounded by certain people and then this being changed effects everyone. These works are a reflection of the contemporary displacements experienced by many people all over the world.

I like to explore memories and as memories fade with the passage of time, I create incomplete paintings of places, as something is missing. This is a study of nostalgia notion, offering a new interpretation to the topophilia concept, which means ‘love for a place’ with cultural and identitarian connotations. I , who spent part of my life in Pakistan and part in United Kingdom, explore my paradoxical feelings of being physically in a place, Pakistan, while I feel emotionally in another place, London and vice versa. This contradiction determinates an emotional turn where the memory plays a strong role in the generation of new images. By exploring these feelings, there echoes a sense of human incompleteness.

It is a state of mind which I show, memories all mixed together. As I travel, different places are incorporated in my work from memory. As they become memories over time and an experience of place and space. The reinventions inspired by the interior effects of diaspora, become a record of the transformation of my identity, where the memory bursts and recreates the existence of the every-day present. As having my personal experience of shifting between the two countries, leads to diaspora. After much research in general memento of migration and the personal experience of emotions, I have studied this further and create works of spaces imagined of real spaces and relive them through memory.