Rabbania Shirjeel
Rabbania Shirjeel is a Lahore based multi-disciplinary artist and curator. She has an Art background with a photography degree. With her practice, she is interested in using photography, text, video, architecture model making techniques and paper collages to address personal histories, nostalgia and social behaviors and coexistence. Her works are mostly multi-layered through the exploration of culture, languages and social landscape. Rabbania‟s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including Gallery 39k, Lahore, Alhamra Arts Gallery, Lahore, The Drawing Room, Lahore, Sir Syed Memorial Complex, Islamabad, Millepiani,Italy. She started her career as Coordinator Arts at The British Council Lahore and has been invited for artist talks and as a Jury including All Indian Summer,UK, Kalaboration Arts, UK, Kaaravan, Lahore, LUMS.
Rabbania is a founder of Tasweerghar through which she is Interested in community building and expanding critical discourse on south Asian contemporary photography through exhibitions,talks and its annual Residency program since 2015. She has curated many projects under Tasweerghar , transforming Narratives and co-lead the project Art Chain Pakistan. She Introduced Tasweerghar Annual Residency program in 2017 and since then have curated and organized Art residencies. Rabbania translated Zines for Transforming Narratives and contributed essays and translations for publications. She was also invited to the Ananke Women in Literature Festival 2021. Her recent interest is working with archives and using photography not only as a means of personal expression but also as documentation.
SUNDAY Sunday 3rd March
Photography Exhibition - New Narratives In Photography
Location: Gallery Wall
An international collaboration between Tasweerghar (Lahore, Pakistan) and GRAIN Projects (Birmingham, UK), as part of the British Council Pakistan Arts Residency Grants Programme. Exhibitions due to take place at MAC, Birmingham, UK from 8th February and at the WOW Festival at Alhamra Art Gallery and Tasweerghar, Lahore, Pakistan from 2nd March 2024. The four artists all have a unique and personal approach to photography, are ambitious in their work and have something to say about the world we live in. They come from a place of care, compassion and collaboration; their work is based on research and conversation and their artwork is of great relevance and interest, both as emerging practitioners in Pakistan, and to the photography scene internationally. The themes they explore include gender and identity, place making and diasporic and colonial heritage. The artists are: Asad Ali Zulfiqar, Hira Noor, Ume Laila and Waleed Zafar
SATURDAY Saturday 2nd March
Photography Exhibition - New Narratives in Photography
Location: Gallery Wall
An international collaboration between Tasweerghar (Lahore, Pakistan) and GRAIN Projects (Birmingham, UK), as part of the British Council Pakistan Arts Residency Grants Programme. Exhibitions due to take place at MAC, Birmingham, UK from 8th February and at the WOW Festival at Alhamra Art Gallery and Tasweerghar, Lahore, Pakistan from 2nd March 2024. The four artists all have a unique and personal approach to photography, are ambitious in their work and have something to say about the world we live in. They come from a place of care, compassion and collaboration; their work is based on research and conversation and their artwork is of great relevance and interest, both as emerging practitioners in Pakistan, and to the photography scene internationally. The themes they explore include gender and identity, place making and diasporic and colonial heritage. The artists are: Asad Ali Zulfiqar, Hira Noor, Ume Laila and Waleed Zafar