Mohsin Shafi
Rabba Mere Haal Da Mehram tu... (Translation: oh God, you are the only one who understands my feelings)
2017
4:00 minutes
Looped Video
Photo Credit: Chani Bockwinkel
biography
Mohsin Shafi is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Lahore, Pakistan. His work investigates the blurred edges between identity and the intentions of identity, attempting to capture what he sees and record their frail existence, only to return and relive them. Picking from actual personal narratives, as well as records and references, Shafi adds on to the visuals in a way that actually exposes a deep-set discomfort. His works are intricate, layered and complex. They make use of public access images from newspapers and magazines, photographs culled from the Internet, sewn together to form elaborate compositions that speak directly of the political milieu of his time.
