naiza h khan
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My recent work has been visibly less about the nude, and more about the body.
The clothes she wears, began as a strategy to create a more explicit code of seduction between the viewer and the work. A sort of hide-and-seek, full of contradictions….the boundaries between them are fluid and unstable.
Constellations of attire have surfaced in recent works, to shadow the body. I feel this attire is the skin on which we must mark the emotional and the physical as a lived experience.
Lingerie, chastity belts, straight jackets and other objects of fetishistic desire, play the stage. The narrative becomes more difficult and confrontational. The figure has been slowly erased out of the picture, as in the Henna Hands on the streets of Karachi , where the people on the street had dismembered the body made on the walls in henna pigment.
In this way, the body, or the loss of it, has become a site for the personal, the social and the ritualistic.
The woman in trying to hide herself, reveals herself to be naked - Louis Bourgeois
The core activity of drawing over the past decade, has entrenched me in a language that is full and without compromise. This has grown as a concern through a number of traditional and non-traditional materials, like silk organza, henna pigment, latex and the use of text. I feel these materials rely on the gestural, the temporal, and the conceptual.
