Ayesha M Ali

The way we see or interpret images can shape the way we understand other people, ultimately defining how we identify with ourselves. Self-projection into the perfect human forms like dolls and mannequins can induce in us the covetousness of an ideal. This ideal is imagined, familiar and yet could be an uncanny ‘other’. Unrecognizable ideals created in the subconscious of one’s mind, are reflected as a staged ‘curated self’, displaying all documentation as evidence over the web, for that particular event. Through this fictional personification of the ‘self’, performing digitally, I have tried to dissect the web of complex visibility patterns in relation to the ideas of simulation, to generate new dialogue regarding the narration of captured reality through the lens of a camera. Curated ‘self’, therefore becomes another way to live experiences you might not otherwise will, as a shred of ‘false’ evidence. These ‘simulated’ avatars retain themselves as a byproduct of global image rotation, collective cultural aesthetics, and western fashion trends. With myself as a subject under scrutiny, this project aims to highlight, propagate and exaggerate the bizarre eccentricity of daily encounters, from a position of a model/subject/woman but...

- Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture Karachi, Pakistan I Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts (New Media Art and Painting Majors) 2015-18
- DA Degree College for Women, DHA Karachi I Intermediate (Pre-Medicine) 2013-2014
- American Lycetuff School Sabzazar, Lahore | Matriculation (Sciences) 2010-2012

• Displayed four Oshii Brownie artworks for 100 Photos Project at Artists Stop Being Poor Gallery,Germany -2020
• First Solo show at IVS Gallery “Dark Skies Gaze Back”, (mix media digital works/costumes) funded by ‘Cosmic Tribe’-2020
• Exhibited at Group show ‘Spacebar’ at Koel Gallery, with my work titled. Published in ‘The News’ and ‘Dawn News’. -2019
2012 Painting Invitational, 4731 Gallery, Detroit, MI 2019
Watercolor: A New Perspective, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 2018
Exhibited at VM Art Gallery for The Emerging Artists show’ Mix media Works)-2019
• Exhibited painting works for United Nations “We the People, We the Arts” Annual Exhibition by Embassy of Switzerland in Islamabad -2018
• My painting “Journey within my city and myself” got displayed in “The Narrative’ by IBA, Karachi 2018