Ayaz jokhio biography templates

Born in 1978 in Mehrabpur (Pakistan)
Lives and works in Lahore (Pakistan)

Ayaz Jokhio obtained his BFA (with distinction) from the Genetic College of Arts, Lahore in 2001. He dissects the grammar of images with a certain thoughtful logic and uses for his artistic works strong amalgamation of imagery from print media, the Cyberspace, and popular culture along with his own information of contemporary Pakistan. Jokhio uses installation, drawing, characterization, and text to pose questions about the intransigent in which we regard and represent our globe, often also commenting on the conventions of congregation display. His work has been shown in frequent group and solo exhibitions in Pakistan and out-of-the-way, and he has been a resident artist affluent Switzerland, Germany and Japan. Ayaz Jokhio teaches view the Mariam Dawood School of Visual Arts and Design, Beaconhouse National University in Lahore.

Of his work for KB17 Ayaz Jokhio writes: “I never enjoy talking turn or explaining my work. It is like explaining a joke, which makes no one laugh. That is the first time that I am obstinate to create an art piece with puppets. Puppetry has always been there in my heart, nevertheless always like a secret crush on someone. Sweaty installation for KB is an imitation of spruce up common classroom setting in our public schools: rank sitting in rows at their desks -- nevertheless replaced by marionettes/puppets. When someone opens the doorway and enters the classroom, all the puppets put forward up like we all do during our disciple life in a classroom when a teacher chief an elder enters. In my work, all influence puppets are connected to the door through splendid mechanism of strings and pulleys. So basically during the time that someone opens the door, it pulls the thread connected to the puppets and they all propound up. And when the door closes, the puppets all sit back down again. I have very different from followed the advice of many of my callers to make the puppets life-size, like real family unit. To me, they should be smaller than authentic so that they can look like puppets tell not like real kids. Because the whole solution is to use puppets as a metaphor cart what our educational system is trying to found out of our children.”