Ayesha Jatoi
Ayesha Jatoi has a background in Miniature Painting and went on
to do a Masters in Visual Arts at the National College of Art in Lahore. She
has been dealing dealt with a varied range of sociopolitical concerns in her
work. Her practice has begun also to comment on art making itself and often
questions the relevance of traditional modes of working today. Her fascination
with the illuminated manuscripts in which miniatures paintings appeared is
obvious through her use of image, text and diptych format found in her work.
Text has started to play a very dominant role in her work of late and frees
itself from its conjugal image ever so often. Ayesha Jatoi uses unusual
material as well. Heart-shaped stickers with bright red roses embossed on them
are ubiquitous in her work. Alluding to the kitschy 'truck art' that can be
seen in the subcontinent, Jatoi's stark paintings, with rows of stickers
against a monochromatic background, also resemble echt Pop Art, in the manner
of Warhol, or stand simply as puzzling abstractions.
