Contemporary art

This dissertation identifies a kind of feminist architecture that constructs physical as well as conceptual space within the constraints of the status quo. I focus on three contemporary artists who challenge supposedly universal or neutral spatial constructions, engaging the arc…

Today, a growing number of Pakistani artists have embraced the nation's perceived visual languages and political, social, and cultural history to interrogate and unpack Pakistan's contemporary society and identity. The fruits of this shifting and mixing are works of art that tur…

This is a project exploring camouflage and multifocality as a practice and theory based research, reflecting the mental state of disappearance that develops into multifocal existence, in the cultural context. The practice element consists of an installation, composed of four con…

The veil is a historically constructed site, a fixed sign used in Euro-America to conveniently and clearly dress the borders between east and west. Recent disciplines like visual and cultural studies, Third World feminism, and postcolonialism have challenged this assumption posi…

Over the last several decades numerous scholarly articles and books have been published on Moroccan art forms. Yet, these studies have consistently examined Morocco's traditional works or its older forms of artistic practices. Specifically, Morocco's ceramics objects and textile…