Shamama Hasany is a multidisciplinary artist based in Karachi, Pakistan. She holds a BFA from the National College of Arts, Lahore (2016), and M.Phil. in Art and Design from the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi (2025). She works with painting, photography, printmaking, writing and video to explore spatial perception and interpersonal relationships in domestic and public spaces. Her work has been exhibited in Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan. Her writing has been published in HYBRID: Interdisciplinary Journal of Art, Design and Architecture, Volume: 05. She has also moderated panel discussions at the Arts Council of Pakistan. Karachi.
For me, the beauty of an artwork lies in its depth of honesty more than its visual appeal. I believe that honesty becomes part of the work when one draws from and centers lived experience. I am interested in the relationship between lived experience (whether it be love, pain, uncertainty, fear etc.) and its transmutation into creative work. In my own work I explore the layered and fragmented nature of spatial perception and memory, ideas of violence and care in interpersonal relationships, the fluid, formal aspects of light and shadow in their interaction with each other and the material world, and the location of the self within private and public spaces. Without explicitly appearing so, my work is about the body and how it absorbs and responds to the world it inhabits and those it shares different spaces with, through sensory and spatial perceptions and the relationship between them.
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