Kiran Waseem

Miss Waseem has a background in Fine Arts having graduated from the National College of Arts, Lahore with Honors in Painting. Her work is inspired by the idea of motion, both physical and metaphysical, transcending the confounds of imagination; This theme is consistent in all of her studio practice. She has, during her early career, been a part of the group shows of renowned galleries both in Lahore, her hometown, and Karachi, including “O Art Space”, “Taseer Art Gallery”, “The Paint Bucket”, “Ejaz Art Gallery”, Art Scene Gallery”, and “MyArtworld”, "Canvas Gallery" to name a few. She has worked on the 2021 edition of “O Art Space Lahore” group show in collaboration with Koel Gallery Karachi and a two person show at O Art Space, Lahore. She has been a part of a show person show at O Art space last year as well (2023). She has been a part of a show called “landscape today" at “full circle gallery" (2023) and also an all-female show at “Dominion Gallery". Had multiple group shows in 2023 across Pakistan (Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore). There are three group shows lined up for 2024 in Lahore and internationally. Her experience within this space has been diverse, having also worked with interior design showrooms including "Marina Homes" and "whitebymeher" to name a few. She is a practicing visual artist along with a vocalist. As she says, "Music has always been an inspiration and singing is part of my life and it helps me in my studio practice. Classical music has inspired and helped me grow in my process". She resides and works in Lahore. Currently a faculty member of Visual Art at Lahore Grammar School (LGS) Landmark Lahore.

Artist statement:

My work is based on the idea of travelling where memory and imagination meet and separate. My process includes multiple layers to create a certain motion by putting layers of paint on a reflective aluminum sheet which fades its own glistening quality. Travelling is similar to memories layering over one another, fusing with imagined events and then the haze to bring to mind something specific. I am fascinated by the way one is unable to tell where memory ends and imagination starts. When I travel, my memories travel with me and my work holds that same hazy quality, both in its process and its outcome. I paint those hazy nightscapes and areas which are familiar to me. The sense of attachment and detachment at the same time has always been poetic for me to paint. My concern is to look at a personal human journey from one place to another in the form of impressions that how everything is impermanent and temporary. The quality where present does not exist and has the same value as past and future. I focus on the deterioration of human journey. The struggle between the past moment and the coming one, fades away the present moment.