Yasser Vayani/Veera Rustomji/Hira Khan/Ammara Jabbar

Yasser Vayani (b. 1992, Nairobi, Kenya) is a graduate of Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture (IVS), Department of Fine Arts. Some of his selected exhibitions include a site-specific group show, 'Up, Down, Inside and Out' at The Jamshed Memorial School, Karachi, in 2014, ‘Origins’ at VM Art Gallery, Karachi, in 2015, Yasser was also selected to create an installation in Budapest, Hungary for the Sziget Festival in 2015. He recently had his first solo show at the IVS Gallery titled 'Drawing (im)possibilities’, in 2016. He has participated as a resident artist for the Koel Gallery’s January 2017 ‘Open Studio Residency’ and been a resident artist at The Creative Center, Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland, Saari Art Residency, Mynämäki, Finland. Hira Khan (b. 1993, Karachi, Pakistan) is a practicing visual artist and a Research Coordinator at the Vasl Artists’ Association. Hira completed her Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art in 2015 from the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi. She has displayed her work at VM Art Gallery, the Karachi Literature Festival 2016 with Canvas Gallery and at Koel Gallery as part of the Mandarjazail Collective exhibition titled ‘Excerpts’. She was an artist in residence at the Hollows’ Artspace, in New York, USA, 2017. Veera Rustomji (b. 1992, Karachi, Pakistan) is a visual artist and writer based in Karachi, Pakistan. She graduated in 2015 from the Department of Fine Art of the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture. A recipient of the Rangoonwala Trust Academic Scholarship, she continues to conduct research for her practice that is driven by her interest in the parallel dialogues of migration and heritage. At present, she is working as an assistant coordinator for Vasl Artists’ Association and pursues freelance writing with numerous publications. Veera has displayed her work within Pakistan and was an artist in residence for the 2017 Murree Museum Artists' Residency. Ammara Jabbar (b. 1992, Karachi, Pakistan) is a graduate of the Department of Fine Art of the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture. She was selected for the Gasworks Residency UK, in 2016 and has displayed her work within Pakistan and the UK. Ammara's interests meander within the aesthetics of dialect and language, in terms of script and the general denominators of masculinity and femininity in the Urdu language.

The artists write of their installation of discarded sofas for KB17: “‘Junk’ is a relative term as it implies the terminal end of an object or a process which cannot be revitalized or has no secondary purpose. We are interested in the personification of these items of furniture using materials found from the site in order to readdress what the human mind categorizes as junk. Art can be seen as an extension of people as all human identities are shaped by the space in which they live and socialize. Past identities are bound to the geographies of multiple places. Found material can be viewed as a common base for expressing and sharing thoughts and ideas about connecting to communities and understanding traditions….we aim to individually bring new purposes to the ‘junkyard’.”