@chawkandi

Faiza Butt’s elaborate drawings are obsessively crafted with passion and rigour, and create surfaces that hover between photography and embroidery. Born into a family of five sisters, gender related themes are close to her heart. In her words, “The inspiration for my work stems directly from my sense of identity (gender/cultural) and the times we live in. I create work by chancing upon potent images, text, encounters and experiences, as I conduct my affairs as an artist, a mother and a British-Pakistani woman. My work touches a broad range of issues concerning the power of media and the printed image. I collect journalistic imagery as a visual documentary of our times. I find it thrilling to subvert a photograph away from its reality into a subject of fantasy and fiction. I have focused on gender polemic right from the beginning of my artistic career. Feminist debate remains an issue close to my heart and the work reflects on the instability and uncertainty of our time, within that context.”
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Fictional Truths: Narrative Painters of Pakistan is curated by Sheherbano Husain and Zoya Currimbhoy, and features Ahmed Ali Mangarhar, ⁠Ali Azmat, Amna Rahman, ⁠Asim Butt, ⁠Colin David, ⁠Faiza Butt, Moeen Faruqi, ⁠Syed Sadequain, ⁠Sheherbano Husain, Zoya Currimbhoy, Naira Mushtaq, Tasadaq Sohail, and ⁠ Lubna Agha.
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The show continues till 3rd March.
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@sheherbanohusain @zoyaalinac @faizaaugust7