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Huma Mulji

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Huma Mulji
Born1970 (age 55–56)
Karachi, Pakistan
OccupationVisual artist
Websitehumamulji.com

Huma Mulji (born 1970) is a Pakistani contemporary artist. Her works are in the collections of the Saatchi Gallery, London and the Asia Society Museum.

Early life and education

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Huma Mulji was born in 1970 in Karachi, Pakistan. In 1995, she completed a BFA at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture in Karachi, Pakistan, and in 2010, received an MFA from Transart Institute in Berlin, Germany.[1][2][3]

Career

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From 2003 to 2015, she was an associate professor at the School of Visual Arts, Beaconhouse National University in Lahore, Pakistan.[4] In 2016, she was a fellow at the Terra Foundation for American Art.[5] She was Visiting Artist at the Goldsmiths' College, London, UK in 2015 to 2017.[4] In 2017, Mulji received the Nigaah Art Award.[6]

She is currently Lecturer at the University of West of England, Bristol, UK,[7] and Lecturer, BA (Hons) Fine Art, at the Plymouth College of Art, UK.[3]

Works

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Mulji's artworks were exhibited at Art Dubai in UAE,[8][9] 10th Gwangju Biennale in Gwangju, South Korea,[10][11] 56th Venice Biennale in Italy,[10] Karachi Biennale 2017,[12] in Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art in Spain,[13] Asia Society Museum in New York,[14] Saatchi Gallery in UK[15] and Project 88 in Mumbai, India.[16] Her solo exhibitions include High Rise, in Elementa Gallery, Dubai, UAE in 2009,[9] Crystal Pallace and Other Follies in Rothas Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan in 2010,[17] Twilight in Project 88, Mumbai, India in 2011,[18] and A Country of Last Things in Koel Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan in 2016.[17]

Mulji's work examines the relationship between culture, context, and cognition. Drawing on the visual culture of her South Asian heritage, she explores the politics of place,[19] addressing themes of existence and the habitual perception of one's surroundings.[20] This intermediary state is continuously played out in Mulji's work, which incorporates sculpture, painting, photography, and installation.[21] The city, the everyday, and the overlooked serve as primary subjects in these artworks, which are often described as deliberately awkward.[22]

Her sculptural installation Arabian Delight (2008) refers to the aspects of economic migration, to the anticipations of the migrants and corresponding reality.[9] The piece consists of a taxidermy camel stuffed into a suitcase and addresses also the Arabization of Pakistan.[23] It was presented at Art Dubai in 2008, but was removed after a few days to avoid a controversial topic. The removal, however, brought even more publicity to the artwork.[24] The piece was bought by Charles Saatchi and became part of the collection of the Saatchi Gallery.

The title of her installation Ode to a Lamppost That Got Accidentally Destroyed in the Enthusiastic Widening of Canal Bank Road (2011–2017), exhibited at the Karachi Biennale 2017 (at Pioneer Book Store),[17] refers to a central road in Lahore where Mulji lived. Its widening caused protests. This artwork comments heavy development that becomes obsolete when the priorities shift.[25] During the Biennale, this work raised controversy.[26] Mulji placed the pole so that it was difficult to navigate in the space. Aziz Sohail noted that it was Mulji's point to make a parallel to social inequality and to how the life of people is affected during the developmental projects.[25] Hamna Zubair wrote:

In this way, the lamppost at Pioneer Book Store may just turn out to be the most authentic work at KB17, in that it organically sparked a much-need conversation about the privilege and social stratification the art world must navigate.[26]

Bibliography

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  • Chiu, Melissa; Genoschio, Benjamin (2010). Contemporary Asian Art. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-23874-5. OCLC 901248255.
  • Baler, Pablo (2013). The next thing : art in the twenty-first century. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. ISBN 978-1-61147-451-0. OCLC 828884554.

References

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  1. ↑ Mirza, Quddus (13 October 2019). "Between artists and their artwork". The News on Sunday. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  2. ↑ "Huma Mulji". Vaslart.org. Vasl Artists' Association. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  3. 1 2 "Huma Mulji". Plymouthart.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  4. 1 2 "Discussion: International Artist Residencies at Spikes Island in Bristol on 9 February 2017". 365bristol.com. 9 February 2017. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
  5. ↑ "Terra Foundation Fellows". Terra Foundation for American Art. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  6. ↑ "Nigaah Art Awards – Celebrating Pakistani art". Aurora. 12 September 2017. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  7. ↑ "Ms Huma Mulji". UWE Bristol. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  8. ↑ Baler, Pablo (2015). The Next Thing Art in the Twenty-First Century. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. pp. 53–66. ISBN 978-1-61147-811-2.
  9. 1 2 3 "Huma Mulji: High Rise". Universes.art. Universes in Universe. June 2009. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
  10. 1 2 "Huma Mulji". Kunstaspekte.art. Archived from the original on 10 July 2020. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
  11. ↑ Farago, Jason (9 September 2014). "Gwangju Biennale: an aggressive exhibition that electrifies South Korea". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
  12. ↑ "Witnessing from afar: making sense of the Karachi Biennale". 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. Archived from the original on 9 December 2020. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
  13. ↑ "In the Open or in Stealth : The Unruly Presence of an Intimate Future". Macba.cat. Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
  14. ↑ Kennedy, Randy (2 September 2009). "Contradictions Remains Vital to Pakistan and Its Art". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
  15. ↑ "Huma Mulji Exhibite dat the Saatchi Gallery". Saatchigallery.com. Saatchi Gallery. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
  16. ↑ "Huma Mulji : Project 88 Exhibition". Project88.in. Project 88. Archived from the original on 18 July 2020. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
  17. 1 2 3 "Huma Mulji". Kbcuratorial.com. Karachi Biennale 2017. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
  18. ↑ Murray, Rachel (19 December 2011). "Huma Mulji's Suspension in Twilight". Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  19. ↑ Sullivan, Graeme, 1951- (2010). Art practice as research : inquiry in visual arts (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks [Calif.]: Sage Publications. ISBN 978-1-4129-7451-6. OCLC 351322811.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  20. ↑ Schonfeld, Roger C., 1977- (2003). JSTOR : a history. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-4311-4. OCLC 777375664.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  21. ↑ Sneden, Eleanor Antoinette. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford University Press. 2011-10-31. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00171338.
  22. ↑ "Huma Mulji". Karachi Biennale 2017. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  23. ↑ "HUMA MULJI, Arabian Delight (and details)". Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  24. ↑ Sullivan, Graeme, ed. (2010). Art Practice as Research: Inquiry in Visual Arts. SAGE. p. 19. ISBN 978-1-4129-7451-6. OCLC 351322811.
  25. 1 2 Sohail, Aziz. "Witnessing from afar: making sense of the Karachi Biennale". 4a.com.au. Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. Archived from the original on 9 December 2020. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
  26. 1 2 Zubair, Hamna (6 November 2017). "An exhibit at the Karachi Biennale has sparked an intense debate about art and elitism". scroll.in. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
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