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CELEBRATING 150 YEARS OF CREATIVE EXCELLENCE 1873 — 2023

Ayesha Rumi

Ice Seller by Ayesha Rumi — Ice Seller, 2021

Ayesha Rumi

My multilingual heritage is an embodiment of my cultural orphanage.

Hence my work is an embodiment of how decolonization has directly affected language in Pakistan. Our society once build on language is now slowly crumbling, giving rise to a unique form of existential and identity crisis where foreign language is used to measure one’s intellect, literacy, and social status. Following this trajectory my work visually realized the consequences of pushing our own language towards extinction.

Employing experimental ethnography, I utilize cross-disciplinary processes to give form to my research, Expanding the studio practice via using non conventional mediums and doing field research to collect qualitative data, my work becomes a platform for generative dialogue across mediums and practices.

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