AFIFA MIRZA
CV
Visual artist
Born in January, 15th 1992
Based in Lahore, Pakistan
+92 3211674228
Education
2009-2011 A’ levels from Lahore Grammar School.
2011- 2016 Bachelors in Visual Arts, Beaconhouse National University.
Group Exhibitions
2011 Displayed drawing at THAAP.
2011 Design selected and displayed for the international VELUX award.
2015 Displayed photographs for the Atlas Project Pakistan.
20015 Wood inlay piece displayed for SPIC MACAY, International Art Convention at International Institute of Technology. Bombay, India.
2016 Thesis Degree Show.
Work Experience
2017 Worked as a Freelance Art Director at The Workshop
Second Cup, Packages Mall.
Ensari Center, Mall Road.
2016 December– 2017 April Worked as Design Management and Client Relations at AURUM.
2014 Worked as an assistant interior designer at Ascent.
2009 Voluntarily worked as an English teacher at the SOS Village.
Workshop/Residency
2015 SPIC MACAY, Bombay, India.
2015 Ceramics workshop at Beaconhouse National University by Neha Lotia.
2010 WWF workshop.
Personal & Professional Skills /Competencies
Well versed in Adobe Photoshop.
Mud Box.
Painting.
Photography.
Sketching.
Sculpture; (familiar materials clay, fiber glass, aluminum, plaster, brass and cement)
Well-developed problem-solving ability and multi-tasking.
Self-explanatory visual/drawing based presentation skills.
Ability to prioritize conception process and plan effectively.
Easy going by nature and able to get along with work, colleagues and senior managers.
Reading and Writing.
Willing to travel for work.
BIOGRAPHY
Born and currently residing in Lahore, Afifa Mirza is a 25 years old visual artist. She finished her BFA degree from Beaconhouse National University. She started off with enrolling into an architecture degree but after two years she followed her passion and moved to visual arts. With the two interests being combined her practice comes out in a way that is very architectural in concepts but is largely based on visual information. She does not bound her art practice to one medium; the choice of medium is based on how she wants to treat the space she is invading in. Her work almost always starts off with photographs that she constantly takes of the city and then later on she translates it into different mediums. She is greatly influenced by the works of James Turell, Lebbeus woods and Tadao Ando. She enjoys the play of light and intervening objects into public spaces and tries to question the relation of human and space.
WORKS
MIRROR INSTALLATION
THE WAVE
ZER-E-TAMEER
MIRROR INSTALLATION
THE WAVE
ZER-E-TAMEER
MIRROR INSTALLATION
THE WAVE
ZER-E-TAMEER
THE PATHETIC FALLACY- HE
THE PATHETIC FALLACY- SHE
THE PATHETIC FALLACY- IT
"The highest form of expression is not to create something from nothing, but rather to nudge something that already exists so that the world shows up more vividly."
Lee Ufan
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work explores the relation of spaces; public and private. How an individual starts to possess a public space just because he/she visits it too often. Humans tend to have this intriguing quality of personalizing their space, even if it’s temporary. I often try to question whether this happens because the space overwhelms the human or the human over possess the space. I try to play with the power a space acquires and also study the change in public behavior due to defining a certain parameter. At times I see my works as public experiments and at times like a series of documentation of spaces that are not changing with age but changing with their owners. “Therefore, the places in which we have experienced day dreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dwelling-places are relived as day-dreams these dwelling-places of the past remain in us for all the time.” – Gaston Bachelard the Poetics of Space. I am excited by the idea of rigid shapes and how I can combine them with some sort of an organic form, and still the overall rigidity of the shape is somehow contained in that piece or space creating an opaque and transparent dialogue .living in a city that is suffering from ‘architectural amnesia’, and is constantly molded like a lump of clay, feels very chaotic, but, this chaos has built up to a level where it has a system. I see it all as a different but very audible language, which is constantly trying to get heard. I hear that language.