2015
I love being creative, and I view art as an instinctive mode for me to show myself. As an artist, I intend to promote an intuitive and spiritual understanding of reality to my witness. My personal motivation is always to communicate with the lost era by studying spaces that people inhabit. Although interior spaces are usually defined by walls and their confining boundaries, what I believe is that individuals or people living inside those spaces play the most significant role in their existence because they dictate how influential the environment within those spaces is. This motivated me to investigate the psychological impact of spaces, including the human relationship with the spaces. My work is based on my own personal experiences of visiting old and abandoned spaces. My engagement with such personal spaces has generated multiple transformative experiences, which have throughout been reflected in my art practice. This has also encouraged me to question how spaces respond to humans and how humans respond to spaces. __
This work is based on experiencing the spaces and the collection of Fakir Khana Museum which is one of the oldest museum of Lahore and It has the largest private collection in south Asia. The photographs of different spaces of the museum are treated into collages adding different mediums and light boxes. These works depict my experience and reaction towards the museum’s rich collection of precious objects focusing on their association with spaces in which they were displayed. My work is an attempt to preserve the precious antiques which were already preserved by the museum, adding my version to the preservation in a way, creating a dialogue with the original artifacts.
Sana Durrani. 2018
Mix Media and oil paint on Inkjet print
39” x 40”
2018
Mix Media and pastels on Inkjet print
22” x 29”
2018
Mix Media on Inkjet print
22” x 15”
2018
Mix Media and oil paint on Inkjet print
22” x 15”
2018