Batool Zehra

Born in 1992 in Karachi (Pakistan)
Lives and works in Karachi (Pakistan)

Batool Zehra graduated from the Department of Visual Studies, Karachi University with Distinction in 2014. She has participated in several group exhibitions in Karachi and is currently an Art Instructor at BVS Parsi High School, Karachi.

Batool Zehra writes of her performance for KB17: “My practice revolves around the idea of impermanence and change. There is a process of deconstruction and reconstruction in my work; I burn down different materials and use their ash to set up something new. My performance, A Minute More, will be on a wooden bench made as a bed. Upon this ‘bed’ I will create a pattern of ash…I will wear black clothes and lay on that bed to sleep. With my movements, the ash patterns will gradually start deforming, relating to the idea of fragility and change.”