LUBNA CHOWDHARY

Lubna Chowdhary is drawn to hybridity. As a precursor to her artistic career, she challenged the representation of works in Western anthropological museum collections, questioning how objects beyond Occidental historical iconography appeared outside of their original context and historical narratives. Her broad yet highly distinctive practice embraces the history of architecture, sculpture, installation, and painting, while galvanising a diversity of aesthetic references and traditions including handmade craft, modernism, diverse architectures and urbanism. In material terms, while clay and ceramics constitute her principal pursuit, she subverts the expectations of this medium by exploring tensions between the handmade and the industrial, the domestic and the urban, ornamentation and minimalism.