Mohsin Shafi is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Lahore – Pakistan. His practice focuses on his South Asian identity and its intersectional relationships with his national, cultural and spiritual interpretations. The work further locates this dialogue within such notions that collectively produce and perpetuate oppression, suppression and depression. Shafi’s works are studies of familiar subjects, slumbering histories and buried traumas. Through a play with an existing library of images and text, he attempts to make the viewer see reality through the fiction of his eyes. These perceived visuals hence become facets of his current persona, both real and imagined. In his process, there are the spaces between translation and interpretation where confusion happens and things are forgotten and remembered as stories change.

Citizenship: Parkistan
Lives in: Lahore
Residence: December 2023 - January 2024