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SANA DURRANI

Sana Durrani is a visual artist and art restorer-conservator who works

and lives in Lahore. She obtained her second Master’s Degree in Art

and Design from Beacon House National University, Lahore in 2016,

along with her Masters in Fine Arts (Painting) from Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan. She has exhibited her work in different galleries both nationally and internationally. She is the recipient of various achievements and awards including Deans Honors list for the thesis show 2015, Certificate of Honor in Art and Design Studies 2016 and Best Young Artist Award 2018 by Lahore Arts Council. She has also been awarded Master trainer in Art conservation and restoration project by CKU Danish Centre for culture and development in 2016. she obtained an international course on restoration of paintings from Machiavelli School, Florence, Italy in 2019. Since then she has been working within the field of conservation-restoration of oil paintings with Alhamra Arts Museum along with other ongoing restoration projects.

Sana Durrani is known for her innovative and distinctive style used for treating the images of the spaces into 3D collages, creating perspectives and giving the realistic approach to the images of old and abandoned spaces. Her practice explores the connection with our spaces we live in and becomes so profound and influential that they are the repositories of multiple stories associated to our daily lives. The concept of revealing those stories is the main essence in the works of a visual artist and art restorer-conservator Sana . These works are focused on the spaces of a specific site of a village with her personal association attached to it where she has observed the human behavior and their relationship with the spaces they inhabit. Her intention is to highlight people’s unconscious desire of saving and preserving their cultural heritage.