Artist Statement/ Biography

Ayesha Kamal Khan’s practice deals with local material extractions and the incapacity of translation. The work confesses these discrepancies and instead seeps into the gaps. She works in a combination of mediums and the scale shifts dramatically. The toy scale formulates a visual vocabulary that imparts cropped views of a fluctuating reality. The large scale tends to implicate the viewer in the space confronted with the precariousness of the installation. The work exaggerates temporary solutions to claim land. The place-holders become active guards of the space they occupy. It uses the language of provisional nomadic structures that assert their unreliability in the means of construction. The work looks for a balance admitting the lack thereof.

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Ayesha Kamal Khan is a visual artist who lives and works between Islamabad and New York. Khan graduated from the National College of Arts, Rawalpindi, Pakistan in 2011, and earned an MFA from Pratt Institute, New York, USA in 2015. She was one of the participants of Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2015 and also the recipient of the New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund for her residency at ISCP, NY in 2017. Khan’s work has been exhibited at art institutions internationally, including Art Chowk in Karachi, the Cuadro Gallery in Dubai, Queens Museum in New York, and most recently the Kuwait Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.