Through the Glass
The aim of this project is to develop and nurture a relationship between both artists, to show how women are connected we are even though we live in different countries. The Objective is to create an online resource that provides a visual representation of work in two countries for future reference and development, focusing on women in both countries with a virtual exhibition.
Artists Introduction
Saba Zahid
Zahid is a Lahore based artist, with a bachelors degree in painting from National College of Arts and a masters in painting degree from Coventry University. During her master’s program at the university, she was able to participate in a group project “I am her”, exhibited at the ST. Mary’s Guild. Previously she has been a part of group exhibitions in her own country and in Dubai as well.
In 2012, she was one of the
three individuals selected to represent Pakistan in Luton, for a collaborated cultural
exchange program where Pakistani truck art and vardo art was the main focus,
the idea of the project was to merge the two forms of art, vardo and truck art
(traditional Pakistani painted vehicles) to finally paint a gypsy carriage that
reflected the mix of both cultures.
Zahid’s work reflects the
identity of women. Portraying women in domestic and public spaces, underlining
the everyday normal scenes where different acts are carried out. Every society
has a different interpretation of women, her life her reality has either been
focused on the concept of beauty and the ornamentation of the body or a subject
to stories, making her the object. She collects images through photographing
women around her.
Instagram Handle: SabaZahidZahir
https://www.sabazahidzahir.org/
Tarla Patel is a Contemporary visual artist based in
Coventry, completing an MA in Contemporary Arts at Coventry University. Tarla’s
work explores identity, memory and space through migration and storytelling.
Patel is the legacy holder of her father’s photography the Masterji archive,
which was part of the successful Coventry City of Culture launch. The
photographs document migrants especially from the South Asian community in post
war Coventry and with her father Maganbhai Patel, published Masterji (2017).
Tarla’s work revolves around memory, space and identity
through migration and culture combining analogue and digital technologies to
create visual narratives, through film and photography. She has worked on several projects with artists,
academics, communities, and arts organisations.
Tarla Patel is from Coventry, a diverse and ever-changing
city of cultures. Her artwork is a way
to communicate stories of the past to present.
@t_a_r_l_a
https://masterji.photography/
https://www.behance.net/TarlaPatel
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