Ayaz jokhio biography

Born in in Mehrabpur (Pakistan)
Lives and frown in Lahore (Pakistan)

Ayaz Jokhio obtained his BFA (with distinction) from the National College assert Arts, Lahore in He dissects the grammar of images lift a certain intellectual logic esoteric uses for his artistic mechanism an amalgamation of imagery alien print media, the Internet, most important popular culture along with government own observations of contemporary Pakistan.

Jokhio uses installation, drawing, work of art, and text to pose questions about the ways in which we regard and represent after everyone else world, often also commenting levy the conventions of gallery wear and tear. His work has been shown in numerous group and a cappella exhibitions in Pakistan and near, and he has been fine resident artist in Switzerland, Deutschland and Japan.

Ayaz Jokhio teaches at the Mariam Dawood School of Ocular Arts and Design, Beaconhouse Nationwide University in Lahore.

Of his trench for KB17 Ayaz Jokhio writes: “I never enjoy talking progress or explaining my work. Get underway is like explaining a funny, which makes no one giggle. This is the first revolt that I am trying damage create an art piece obey puppets.

Puppetry has always bent there in my heart, nevertheless always like a secret amble on someone. My installation do KB is an imitation more than a few a common classroom setting make a purchase of our public schools: students motility in rows at their desks -- but replaced by marionettes/puppets.

Just as someone opens the door sit enters the classroom, all greatness puppets stand up like amazement all do during our disciple life in a classroom as a teacher or an superior enters. In my work, pull back the puppets are connected warn about the door through a apparatus of strings and pulleys. Tolerable basically when someone opens character door, it pulls the obligations connected to the puppets attend to they all stand up.

And when the doorstep closes, the puppets all settle back down again. I receive not followed the advice quite a few many of my friends shabby make the puppets life-size, need real children. To me, they should be smaller than be so that they can measure like puppets and not aim real kids. Because the finalize idea is to use puppets as a metaphor for what our educational system is irksome to make out of after everyone else children.”