Festival of Muslim Cultures: UK 2006
Festival of Muslim Cultures | UK 2006 Print Project | exhibitions | contemporary pakistani printmakers | Naiza Khan
Naiza Khan
Naiza Khan attended Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford and gained a BA in Fine Art in 1990. She returned to Pakistan and took the position of Head of Painting at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture in Karachi. She is a founder member of the working group ‘Vasl International Artists,’ a network initiative based in the UK. She has exhibited throughout Asia, USA, Australia and Europe.
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In my work over the last few years I have been exploring the ambiguous and complex relationship between the female body and female identity and female subjectivity determined by the discourse of patriarchy.
What evolved has grown into a concern with a number of traditional and non-traditional materials, like silk organza, which is used in the prints.
I often step back, or rather forced to step back, and begin to see how I am struggling to create an autonomous feminine subjectivity which is pertinent to my own personal realities.
What is becoming visible is my need to articulate how the body is marked by femininity as a lived experience, where subjectivity is produced through new narratives.
What I see in retrospect are questions raised about representational strategies of the Self as Other and as body, the boundaries between them are fluid and unstable.
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