Sonya Battla

Born in 1971 in Karachi (Pakistan)
Lives and works in Karachi (Pakistan)

Sonya Battla was born and raised in Karachi and studied Fashion in London.  She established her eponymous label in 2000. She lives and works from her studio in Karachi. Sonya Battla tends to embrace the negative space as fondly as the positive of the image. She is especially interested in the human form and its correlation to movement and effects of that space created.

Sonya Battla writes of her installation for KB17: “This work is about the shelter a home provides, in contrast with how the destruction of a home creates refugees for whom a roof becomes more than that.”