naiza khan

bare the fact bear the fact
New Works
14 Mar - 6 Apr, 2006

Lebenon born, UK raised, Karachi based artist Naiza Khan has been working with themes relating to displacement, and the female Self for over a decade, making video and site-specific works. Drawing has always remained her primary medium, though. For the first time she places the female nude on center stage with a provocative series in new mixed media drawings. bare the fact, bear the fact, explores the areas of essentialised female corporeality caught between multiple social, political and ritualistic constructs. Khan's creates semi-narrative, academic-style renditions that evoke dual instincts of self-preservation and empathy even as they explore the workings of the gaze in fetishistic desire, seduction, and pain. Drawing from posed models and images culled from art history, her figures float, blur, and dissolve into dream-like, semi-consciousness states of being.