Suffocation

Aleena K is a Lahore-based visual artist who earned her BFA in 2022 from the National College of Arts, Lahore, and majored in printmaking. Being a multidisciplinary artist, her practice revolves around printmaking, photography, illustration, and painting. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally in numerus-celebrated galleries. Drawing inspiration from the surrounding environment and the individuals within, she has explored themes of hybridity and duality, which gradually progressed towards abstraction and complex imagery.

Her artwork encourages the viewer to go beyond immediate perception to explore and contemplate the innate animalistic traits and characteristics intrinsic to individuals, often represented through abstract forms and amalgamated creatures or isolated body parts of animals. This illustrative approach is ever-changing in texture and in visuals, resulting in humorous and playful imagery showcasing the changes that occur in humans and their nature. While contradictory, their realities have their attributes hidden, which evokes a sense of curiosity in regard to their representation.