Adeela Suleman

Lives in Karachi, the city in which she was born
in 1970. She combines her creative endeavours
with her work as a university lecturer, a stimulating source of ideas and a place where she can grow
and develop her style.

The most distinctive feature of this Pakistani artist's work is her exceptional ability to reinvent everyday life and transform the ordinary into
the extraordinary.
Her works are made up of everyday objects
and utensils found at bazaars, Aladdin's caves of useful and necessary things but also filled with non-essentials, frills, or perhaps unexpectedly misunderstood treasures just waiting
to be discovered and placed in a brand new setting.

Adeela takes these objects and gives them a new identity and new meanings which are certainly influenced by her own social context.
With acute sensitivity, she perceives the contradictions and ambiguities of her much-loved country, undergoing a rapid economic and political transformation and afflicted by the re-emergence
of terrorist attacks and socio-religious conflict.
In an equally poetic style, she transforms fears
and worries into the uniqueness of an artistic invention.