Zarmeene Shah Pakistan
One Step
As words are written they are being erased, but the writer keeps writing.
The film speaks of identity or rather of the loss of that identity through external forces - of the fleeting, fragile quality that something as distinctive and intrinsic as our identities and our voices have come to be endowed with at this time.
- Direction:
- Zarmeene Shah
- Edit:
- Shahlalae Jamil
- Performers:
- Zarmeene Shah and Laila Jamil
Zarmeene Shah
Zarmeena Shah
Zarmeene Shah graduated with a BFA from the Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture in December 2003 and has since been practicing as an artist and an educator. She is primarily a painter, who has also worked extensively with drawing, photography and the digitally manipulated image.
Her work has explored issues that have naturally arisen from her own experiential context in a post-colonial, bi-lingual society, where issues of authentic art practices versus received notions of excellence are still keenly debated, questioning notions of ‘purity’ and an ‘authentic traditional practice’ in these times. The female figure or presence has remained constant in being the means through which questions of identity, personal or public, are posed.
Although many of the same issues remain, recently her work has taken on a more personal, and emotive tone, much more minimal in its delivery, with her concerns being symbolically alluded to rather than directly stated.
She is currently living and working in Karachi, Pakistan