In ‘One day, one work’, today we explore a body of drawings that are an extension of explorations of Indo-Persian miniature paintings.
Our highlight is ‘Land, Sea, Sky’, 2022, from Ayesha Jatoi's latest graphite series.
Ayesha Jatoi deconstructs and reimagines these traditional paintings and forms of documentation using graphite on small dark surfaces to create these “studies”.
By unravelling and retelling hundreds of these compositions
in the past few years, she has developed a practice embedded
in memory which is becoming less linked to the originals yet
simultaneously reverting to a more traditional technique of
making through fine rendering.
Her works are quiet yet bold transformations of the spatial
and architectural divisions of traditional compositions into
new enigmatic spaces. Geometric forms are used to evoke
a sense of landscape, becoming a distinctive feature in her
oeuvre.
