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ARTIST STATEMENT

In my work, I have tried to explore the relationship between language and identity, in a cultural, historical and contemporary context. As a Pakistani citizen, having to experience the decline of our national language in almost every sphere of life, has led me to revisit the relationship of this language with my own identity. The fractures that result within one’s own being, after one feels that he is slowly being dispossessed of a language, fragments the relationship that one has with one’s own self. This fragmentation, confusion and disorder that seem inescapable and …