Asif Ahmed is a Karachi-based visual artist. He graduated with a distinction in Miniature Painting from the National College of Arts, Lahore. He describes his practice as “Miniature art is the subject of discussion in my work. Making of detail drawings and miniatures takes a view of the historical period in the present time. Historical symbolism and figures have been a central theme of my surfaces, and the connection between the images is a means to question the position of traditional art and iconography. Borrowing imagery from the pages of famous traditional schools and transforming them by juxtaposing, overlapping and rearranging to construct new narratives. I use a mostly traditional miniature technique often on small or large scales, develop them gradually and put them into new contexts to articulate contemporary issues of traditional art in the modern world.”
