The artist’s practice embodies the use of laborious and repetitive sketches, embroidery and prints to examine the city of Karachi through a personal mapping of her experience of its geography, resulting in both two and three dimensional works. This intersects with her investigation of the female body and the ways in which it is made visible or invisible in a local context. The artist regularly deploys the use of the needle as a symbol of femininity, both sublime and violent, in order to reveal inherent contradictions in the lived reality of the female figure.
