Huma Mulji

Aftermath-Footnotes

Year Dec-23
Medium Digital embroidery on Calico
Dimensions 30 x 21.9 cm
Top pick Selected by Jes Fernie, curator & writer

About the work

Aftermath: Footnotes, explores the endeavour of calibrating thought and the written word, in a climate of censorship and silence. This writing, unwriting and flooding of the page with thick blotches of ink; are both productive and critical; signifying rage, resistance and rebellion.

Date and country of birth

1970, PK

Career Highlights

Proposals for a Memorial to Partition, 12 Gates, Philadelphia (2023); Your Tongue in My Mouth (solo), Mirror, Plymouth (2022); Skyfall, (solo) Karachi, Pakistan (2020), In the Open and in Stealth, MACBA, Barcelona (2018), 10th Gwangju Biennale (2014), Hanging Fire, Asia Society, New York, USA, Where Three Dreams Cross, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2010). Mulji was awarded the Abraaj group Art Prize in 2012, Nigaah award for photography in 2016 and the DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Visual Arts fellowship 2024-25.