AYESHA JATOI

Ayesha Jatoi is a pakistani artist, living and working in Lahore. Born in Pakistan, 1979.Ayesha Jatoi was trained as a Miniaturepainter at the National College of the Arts in Lahore (Pakistan) and as aphotographer at the National College of the Arts in Lahore. She was oneof the founding editors of the magazine of Contemporary Art andCulture, published in Lahore, Pakistan.Her practice primarily explores thetraditional manuscript’s symbiotic relationship between the image andtext and the spatial division of these “illuminated pages”. In Jatoi’swork, text often frees itself all together of the image. While beingimmersed in local ancient aesthetics of iconography, she simultaneouslyquestions the relevance of traditional modes of constructing imagestoday; resulting in a practice which takes on hybrid forms.