Manizhe Ali

Born in 1972 in Lucknow (India)
Lives and works in Karachi (Pakistan)

Manizhe Ali has a MA in Visual and Media Anthropology from Freie Universität, Berlin and a BFA from the Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture, Karachi. She is a multi-disciplinary artist who works in various medium such as painting, video, photography, installation and performance and has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally. She has worked for Indus Vision Television Network and Geo Television Network. She was on the organizing committee for KaraFilm Festival and is an alumnus of the Berlinale Talent Campus. In addition, she has her own jewellery brand. Currently Manizhe is the Director at ZCOMS (Ziauddin College of Media Sciences), Ziauddin University. Formerly she has been associated as an academician and HOD with Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture and Iqra University.

 Manizhe Ali writes of her performance for KB17: “Every day our brain stores, encodes and retrieves memories. In this performance, the artist is both the protagonist and the observer. Visitors are invited to share a memory on a piece of paper which is then added to the pile of growing memories on the floor. As the memories accumulate the artist is slowly surrounded by them and in this way, the memories are both shared and preserved.”