Artist depicts the struggle of women

Faiza Khan’s solo show, Impalpable Ballads, on display at Collector’s Gallery.

LAHORE:

Faiza Khan’s solo show, Impalpable Ballads, opened on Monday at the Collector’s Gallery in Gadaffi Stadium. Khan, a graduate of University of Oklahoma and Punjab University, works with oil on canvas and her subjects are mostly women and children.

“I strive to highlight an eclipsed journey of emotions,” said Khan, “which often depicts the oscillating conditions of women between integrity, grace and benediction, isolation, oppression and a struggle for a life liberated from fear.”

Khan incorporates voodoo dolls in her work to depict the helplessness of women. “I focus particularly on the weak in any society, especially women and children,” added Khan.

She has exhibited in Lahore, Islamabad, Karachi, Philadelphia, Abbottabad, Atlanta and Alabama. “I love oil as my medium. I experiment with other media but the completed piece is always in oils. I feel more in control with this medium, it satisfies my hunger for the image to be exactly the way I would want it to be born,” says Faiza Khan, “with each birth I realise that I would cease to be, if I don’t paint.”

Published in The Express Tribune, November 24^th, 2011.