Every year the month of August brings forth celebration, joy and symbolism of freedom for the people of Pakistan. In order to whole-heartedly celebrate the Independence Day, every home, street and market is covered with green and white flags. This festive month excites the children who show their enthusiasm by decorating their homes with national flag and greenJhandiyan. I remember that I used to make an origami house using a little Jhandi. Years later, I have realized the significance of that act. A home located in space but it is not necessarily a fixed space since it does not require bricks and mortar. It provides primary care of bodies and gives you ultimate comfort and freedom of whatever you choose to be. For me Pakistan gave me my identity, my nationality and it is also the part of my idea of self. In this work I recreate that simple act of my childhood. The shape of home signifies Pakistan as A SAFE PLACE.
BIO
Lahore based artist Ume Laila graduated from Punjab University College of Arts and Design, in 2016. She did her masters in Visual arts from National College of Art in 2020. Laila is multidisciplinary artist and explore various concepts such as relationships in contact of social life and the aspects that distract them.
She has participated in several group exhibitions. She done a Lahore based art residencies Karbath 01 and TaweerGharresidency in 2018. She was part of Imago Mundi project Italy. She was also part of numerous group shows at Ejaz Art Gallery (2016), Tehbateh at Taseer Art Gallery (2018), Pakistan at 100 at the World Bank, Islamabad (2019),1MIN I 100YEARat Como museum(2021) and Towards Home (2021) at Dominion Gallery. She was part of two collateral shows Space and Karbathian 2020 of Lahore Biennale 2020. Her video Mukalma published at The Aleph review magazine website.
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