Shalalae Jamil

Shalalae Jamil was born and raised in Pakistan and educated at Bennington College, USA and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA. Currently based in Karachi, Pakistan, she uses photography, film, video, installation and elements of performance to continually investigate how perception and meaning are altered by the shifting parameters of private and public space. Sometimes poetic, but often straightforward, her work uses the generic to address unspoken aspects of shared experience. Jamil has exhibited work in Pakistan and India, the U.S. and the U.K. She has been on the faculty of Beaconhouse National University, Lahore; National College of Arts, Lahore; and the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi, where she was head of the Postgraduate Diploma Course In Photography. Her work is in several private collections, including the Arts Council in Pakistan and the Devi Art Foundation in India.

Sources: Karachi Biennale website
Images: left, Shalalae Jamil (A1030) Passport Photographs, 2015; right, The Science of Taking a
Walk, 2015