Rabbania is a Lahore-based multidisciplinary 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 from exploration of cultures, languages, and social landscapes.
Rabbania’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She started her career as Coordinator Arts at The British Council Lahore and has been invited for artist talks and as a jury member, including All Indian Summer, UK, Kalaboration Arts, UK, Kaaravan, Lahore, and 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-leading the project Art Chain Pakistan. She introduced the Tasweerghar Annual Residency program in 2017 and has since curated and organized art residencies, including the British Council Residency Grant 2023-2024, and was part of the WOW festival 2024 and 2025.
The work directly explores the artist’s state of mind, where they are free to think and create without the limitations of identity and gender. This space is surreal, imaginary, and at times idealized, pushing the artist to construct escapes and denials, offering both freedom and refuge. It sometimes creates a safe space to experiment and express.
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