NURJAHAN AKHLAQ F-320, LADO SARAI, NEW DELHI

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1 NURJAHAN AKHLAQ F-320, LADO SARAI, NEW DELHI

2 NURJAHAN AKHLAQ B: 1979, Pakistan EDUCATION: 2004 BFA Film Production, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada 2008 MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London, U.K GROUP EXHIBITION: 2015 Phenomenology of Perception, Exhibit320, New Delhi, 2015 Three Person Show, Exhibit 320, New Delhi And Nothing But the Truth, Parrhesia II Koel, Karachi, Pakistan No Man s Land, Gallery 39K, Lahore, Pakistan 2014 The Garden of Idea, Contemporary Art from Pakistan, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto Monitor Reruns, a Space Gallery, Toronto 2010 Print now, Bear space, London, U.K The Rising Tide, New Directions in Art from Pakistan, Mohatta Palace Museum, Karachi, Pakistan 2008 Goldsmiths MFA Degree Show, Goldsmiths College, London, U.K The Lovers Were Ambassadors to Imaginary Utopias, Commune, Karachi, Pakistan

3 2007 IM, Goldsmiths College, London, UK Year End Exhibition, Goldsmiths College, London, UK 2006 Beyond the Page, Contemporary Art from Pakistan, Asia House, London, UK FILMS Death in the Garden of Paradise (16mm/video), 21 min SELECTED SCREENINGS 2007 Festival of 3 Continents, Nantes, France Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA 2006 Poetry + Projections, Drake Underground, Toronto Kassel Documentary and Video Festival, Kassel Zanzibar International Film Festival, Zanzibar Commonwealth International Film Festival, Manchester Images Festival of Independent Film and Video, Toronto It s All True International Documentary Film Festival, Sao Palo Monitor 2: A Programme of South Asian Film and Video, Toronto Third I New York, Urban Hum of Pakistan, New York Mumbai International Film Festival, Mumbai

4 2005 Dhaka International Short and Independent Film Festival, Dhaka IDFA, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Amsterdam Poetry + Projections, the Drake Hotel Underground, Toronto Festival of New Cinema New Media, Montreal Tasveer Seattle Independent South Asian Film Festival, Seattle EBS International Documentary Festival, Seoul Korea Filmy Independent South Asian Film Festival, Toronto Unfinished, a Program of Short Film and Video, Chicago San Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Toronto Kara film, Karachi International Film Festival, Karachi, Pakistan 2004 OAC Mobile Media Film and Video Tour Monitor Contemporary South Asian Film and Video at Camera, Toronto Mateela Film Festival, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Lahore, Pakistan 2003 Flight (16mm/DV), 10 min Images Festival of Independent Film and Video, Toronto Montreal World Film Festival, Student Film Festival, Concordia University Year end Screening

5 PHENOMENOLOGY OF PERCEPTION, EXHIBIT 320, NEW DELHI Nurjahan Akhlaq s recent body of work explores concepts of space and perspectives rooted in Islamic arts and architecture. While referencing this language of flatness, geometry and abstraction, Akhlaq attempts to create compositions that are inviting to the viewer s imagination. The up cycled' objects and surfaces that materialize in Lahore s old bazaars and vernaculars have long held her interest. This second tier economy, often where first world commodities/material are transformed or appropriated in form and function; she finds the history of these materials quite potent. The found images utilized in the works are sourced from the Anarkali footpath bazaar, as well as second hand art books. Akhlaq is interested in creating a collision between the opulent, ornamental and stylized qualities of this language with a local vernacular to create compositions and articulations of space. These two divergent strains fused together create a tension that she hopes will elicit readings/narratives that are associative, formal, or playful. Seized Rhythm, Mixed Media Acrylic on Paper, in x 4.5 in, 2015

6 Broken Beauty, Mixed Media Acrylic on Paper, in x 4.5 in, 2015

7 Coded Weave, Mixed Media, Acrylic on Paper, in X 4.5 in, 2015

8 Locked Diagonals (Ardabil I), Mixed Media, Acrylic on Paper in x 4.5 in, 2015

9 Distant Diagonals (Ardabil II), Mixed Media, Acrylic on Paper, in X 4.5 in, 2015

10 Untitled Mixed Media, Acrylic on Paper, in X 4.5 in, 2015

11 PREVIOUS WORK BY NURJAHAN AKHLAQ Mangled Logic, Acrylic and Paper Collage; 10.6 in X 14.5 in, 2015

12 Brute Fortress, Ink and Paper Collage; 14.5 in X 10.6 in, 2015

13 Atrophied Structures II, Mixed Media Collage; 14.5 in X 10.6 in, 2015

14 Mute Legacy, Mixed Media Collage; 14.5 in X 10.6 in, 2015

15 Untitled, Mixed Media Collage; 11.7 in X 16.5 in, 2009

16 Bulldozer, Mixed Media Collage, 11.7 in X 16.5 in, 2009

FILM-MAKERS FESTIVAL FUND FESTIVAL LISTS 09/10 Listed A-Z

FILM-MAKERS FESTIVAL FUND FESTIVAL LISTS 09/10 Listed A-Z List A: Overseas festivals where Film London will provide a travel grant where short films have been selected and are in competition see notes