FARWA RIZVI
Farwa is a painter based in Lahore (Pakistan). She uses religious iconography to explore the ideas of faith, identity and contemporary ideas of faith emerging from Islam. Her work revolves around an event from history that reflects patience, innocence and undoubting faith as elements of power rather than violence. She is interested in religious processions using modern objects or her own body, and the repetition of these and how they can become a form of meditation. Her work explores modern objects or identities that have been related to Shia’ism, a branch of Islam; in order to investigate and question why these objects or identities have become the only immediate association with this belief.
Her work was displayed in Lahore Biennale 02 in the exhibition of thesis of selected works in February 2020 and in Studios Seven Gallery in Karachi, in March 2020. Her artworks have also been featured in The Huts Magazine, Found Space and in Khamsa Art in 2021.
Zikr (acknowledgment)
Haar (The Rose Wreath)
Maal E Ghadir (The Bounty of Ghadir)
Untitled
Zikr - Acknowledgment (2020) Limited editions photographic prints on archival paper (edition of 5), 42cm x 29cm, £100
Haar - The Rose Wreath (2019) Oil on Canvas, 46cm x 46cm, £140
Maal E Ghadir - The Bounty of Ghadir (2019) Oil on Canvas, 91cm x 76cm, £270
Untitled (2019) Oil on Canvas, 46cm x 46cm, £160
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