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A H W A R   N A S I R

Ahwar Nasir is a multidisciplinary artist and art instructor. She graduated from the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture with a Bachelor's in Fine Arts. Her art practice expands across painting, drawing, and embroidery, exploring themes of home and displacement. Drawing from her own nomadic life of travelling from Pakistan to the middle east, Ahwar transforms her memories into tactile and visual narratives. She skillfully uses embroidery and drawings to create a visual mosaic, reflecting the domestic chaos and fleeting moments that shape her sense of belonging. 


Nasir experienced constant relocation, leaving fragmented memories of various homes. However, the emotions and textures lingered. Growing up amidst her grandfather's textile business, she developed a fascination with fabrics, particularly muslin's fragility and translucency, symbolizing her transient life. Through embroidery she captures the comforts and confusions of her nomadic experiences. Precise fabric cuts juxtapose with spontaneous drawings, imposing order on chaos, reflecting her quest for stability amidst constant change. 


She creates large scale installations made out of various/diverse fabrics to create spaces that imitate safety, intimacy and care under a canopy. Nasir's work has been featured in exhibitions at Jamshed Memorial Hall, AAN Art Space and Museum, Koel Gallery, TDF Ghar, and Frere Hall in Karachi, O Art Space in Lahore. She was a recent resident at VM Art Gallery’s residency “Always, from the heart”, and took part in the “Garmi” residency at Cinema 73.

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