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Vasl KKAF Canvas Research Grant

Ephemeral Spectrum 2023-2024

Details
Category:
Collaboration
Artists:
Grant winner: Mubashar Iqbal
In collaboration with:
Canvas Gallery

Mubashar Iqbal is the recipient of the Vasl-KKAF Research Grant 2023-2024. Mubashar is based in Lahore. He has exhibited his works in several group shows across various galleries in Pakistan. Mubashar was also the resident artist for Vasl’s 15th Taaza Tareen residency, Nirala Sheher, The Peculiar City.

The Research Grant of 2023 – 2024 is comprised of 4 members, Amin Gulgee, Durriya Kazi, Sameera Raja & Sophia Balagamwala.

My work depicts an insight into complicated ideologies which inhibit the crux of our culture, consciousness and conscience. I intend to decipher these complexities and convert them into a ‘relationship’ between various elements, where comparisons among the identity, arrangement and use of these mundane items reflect the world within and without us. My purpose is to echo these dogmas, as an argument on our surroundings and epistemic of society.