Artists
Wardha Shabbir
Wardha Shabbir (1987, Lahore, Pakistan) is one of the most unique and committed voices in contemporary Pakistani art. Since her childhood in Lahore, her gaze has been shaped by the world around her, especially by the garden her family nurtured with carefulness, a space of care, growth and contemplation. The way her mother drew small motifs with fine lines also left its mark on the artist. Educated in the tradition of miniature painting, Shabbir belongs to a generation of Pakistani artists who, using the miniature as a central discipline, have expanded it until it becomes a tool for critical thinking without losing the technical accuracy and the reverence for the discipline. In her work, the miniature is no longer an aesthetic piece for museographical consumption, but a field of resistance. It is not a means, but a space of critical negotiation between the local and the global, the traditional and the contemporary, the intimate and the political.
