Location: Karachi, Pakistan
Medium: Sculpture and Digital
Contact: admin@fuguegallery.com
I am a textile designer and visual artist whose practice centers on fabric exploration and material manipulation as a means of conceptual storytelling. I work extensively with fabric pulp, weaving, layering, burning, and surface distressing to transform textiles and paper into expressive forms that speak about social, political, and environmental realities. My process involves breaking materials down through pulping, tearing, or burning and rebuilding them through weaving and assemblage, allowing the material itself to carry meaning. Fabric becomes both structure and metaphor: fragile yet resilient, damaged yet capable of repair. Through these experimental textile techniques, I use making as a way to reflect on crisis, memory, and collective responsibility, positioning textile processes as tools for critical, future-oriented art rather than purely functional or decorative forms.
*Future Forward Feature Embers of Insight is a mixed-media artwork that reflects the evolving condition of our world by transforming a burned newspaper into a woven surface. The newspaper, a symbol of daily information and global events, is deliberately charred to represent instability, conflict, and the overwhelming nature of contemporary crises,social, political, and environmental. The act of burning emphasizes urgency, loss, and the fragile state of truth in a rapidly changing world.In contrast, the woven section introduces texture, color, and material diversity, symbolizing resilience and human intervention. Through weaving, fragmented elements are brought together, suggesting repair, continuity, and collective effort. The slow, labor-intensive process of weaving stands in opposition to the fast, destructive spread of crisis, proposing care, patience, and unity as tools for rebuilding.The piece is future-forward because it frames crisis not as an endpoint but as a transitional state. By reworking discarded news into a tactile, enduring form, the artwork imagines a future shaped by transformation, sustainability, and shared responsibility—where meaning is reconstructed rather than erased.
