Inshaal Tahir's Thesis Project
My project is rooted in a personal inquiry of the Banyan trees as these majestic two-hundred-year-old, historically significant trees are being neglected and cut down in the Old Clifton area of Karachi, mainly because of their invasive nature. Banyan trees (ficus bengalensis), grow overwhelmingly over each other and expand over a given site. Along with their sizeable presence they interest me most because they have witnessed our region’s violent history - Karachi’s colonial past as well as current and ongoing sectarian and political violence. In my work the form of the Banyan trees has been fragmented, manipulated and transformed - using ideas from within science fiction to create a narrative around invasions and reclamation of these beings who have shape-shifted and assembled together in an alternate universe as a response to a threat to their environment. Through my work I attempt to portray a sense of alienation and otherness and to make the viewer rethink their own relationship with nature and the consequences of their actions.
Inshal Tahir
Fine Art
Inshaal Tahir's Thesis Project
My project is rooted in a personal inquiry of the Banyan trees as these majestic two-hundred-year-old, historically significant trees are being neglected and cut down in the Old Clifton area of Karachi, mainly because of their invasive nature. Banyan trees (ficus bengalensis), grow overwhelmingly over each other and expand over a given site. Along with their sizeable presence they interest me most because they have witnessed our region’s violent history - Karachi’s colonial past as well as current and ongoing sectarian and political violence. In my work the form of the Banyan trees has been fragmented, manipulated and transformed - using ideas from within science fiction to create a narrative around invasions and reclamation of these beings who have shape-shifted and assembled together in an alternate universe as a response to a threat to their environment. Through my work I attempt to portray a sense of alienation and otherness and to make the viewer rethink their own relationship with nature and the consequences of their actions.
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Strangling, Animation, 1920x1080 pixels, 2021
Untitled, Digital Art, 1920x1080 pixels, 2021.
Untitled, Digital art, 1920x1080 pixels, 2021
Untitled, Digital Art , 1920x1080 pixels, 2021.
Untitled, Animation, 1920x1080 pixels, 2021.
Untitled, Digital Art, 1920x1080 pixels,2021.
Untitled, Digital Art, 1920x1080 pixels, 2021.
