Sumbul is a Lahore-based visual artist, writer, researcher, and curator. She graduated in Visual Communication Design from College of Art and Design, Punjab University, and holds an MPhil in Cultural Studies from the National College of Arts, Lahore. She has taught at various art institutes in Lahore. She currently serves as a lecturer in the Visual Communication Design Department at National College of Arts, Lahore, and is a PhD scholar in Art and Design (studio practice) at the Punjab University. Sumbul has been part of several group shows locally and internationally and has participated in various residencies and conducted curatorial projects. Her deep interest in South Asian art history drives her art and research practice, which revolves around exploring and tracing the roots and routes of South Asian visual and material culture. She also writes for different art magazines, including ArtNow, The Karachi Collective, Aleph Review, Nigaah Art, and ADA magazine.
Sumbul’s installation is a meditation on memory, reconciliation, and the preservation of emotional remnants from the past. Inspired by a personal gift—52 reasons for rekindling a friendship—she reconstructs a keepsake box as both an artifact and a vessel of sentiment. Within its compartments, symbolic objects convey deeper meanings: a wilted rose reflects faded affections, a wooden heart on a black surface represents buried emotions, and photo-transferred words echo the hope and longing in gestures of repair.
Above, a suspended frame holds letters encased in Ziploc bags, preserving the words people choose to lock away in their hearts. Through this work, Sumbul explores the fragility of human connections and the quiet spaces where love, loss, and remembrance reside.
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