Kingdom under fire 2 artwork series#

“Tschumi’s art influenced me so much that I have used one of his titles in my current work,” she said. Zainab is inspired by Bernard Tschumi, a Swiss architect, writer and educator.

Kingdom under fire 2 artwork series#

The video series includes I Will Never Forgive You I and II, The Waiting Room, Absurd Every Day and Before the Cat Looks. She has touched upon some taboo subjects in The Shadow of God in the Garden and You Can’t Please All done in ink and gouache on wasli. “In these particular works, I have tried to talk about the dissociative state of being and the abstract space that attracts the viewer,” she told Dawn.

She is particularly interested in how isolation, surveillance and the absence of queer narratives have contributed towards changing her experiences of space, time and memory. Her art revolves around ritualistic flashbacks and nostalgia while coping with invasions of safe spaces within families, generational trauma and the documentation of how these systems affect an individual. Zainab is a Lahore-based artist who graduated from the National College of Arts (NCA) in 2021. The show titled Liminal Spaces highlights the abstract space that the disempowered find themselves in when they feel like they do not belong anywhere, the show’s curator, Amad Mian, said. Works by Zainab Zulfiqar and Houria Khan were displayed at the gallery.

Their new body of collaborative artwork focusing on marginalised genders, cultures, faiths and classes opened at Dastaangoi Gallery on Saturday. ISLAMABAD: Two promising young artists have brilliantly portrayed the plight of subjugated segments of Pakistani society along with the liminal existence to which animals have been condemned.