PARTICIPANT / Ayesha Jatoi

Ayesha Jatoi is a visual artist whose practice comments mainly on art making and often questions the relevance of traditional modes of working today. Trained as a miniature painter and photographer at the National College of the Arts in Lahore, Jatoi’s work shares a fascination with manuscripts and the spatial divisions of the of “illuminated page.” Of late text plays a very dominant role in all her work, often freeing itself altogether of the image. Jatoi is a founding editor of the Journal of Contemporary Art & Culture published from Lahore, Pakistan. Jatoi lives and works in Lahore.