Adeela Suleman

Artist Information

Lifespan

Born 1970

Birth Place

Karachi, Pakistan

Category

Contemporaries

Adeela Suleman

Biography

Adeela Suleman explores the fragility and ephemerality of life through her art. By juxtaposing seemingly pastoralized scenes with the hard, formidable qualities of the stainless-steel medium, Suleman’s sculptures reflect the precarious nature of the human condition amid the constant flux of society. The motifs used in her work may be seen simultaneously as symbolic representations of the coexistence of a love for nature with human conflict, as well as fragmented documentary references to recent violent and catastrophic events within the artist’s sociopolitical landscape. Suleman studied sculpture at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture and later completed a master's degree in International Relations from the University of Karachi. Her work...

Featured Works

After All It's Always Somebody Else Who Dies
Fly My Pretties
DONOT
Rise I & Rise II
Not Everyone's Heaven - 1
Not Everyone's Heaven - 5
WHAT DREAMS MAY COME
I Will Lie With You
Kar Wa Farr Series 4
Land Slicing I
No Longer Possessed
Praying in Her Richly Decorated Room III
I Will Meet You by the Water - 2
I Will Meet You by the Water - 6
Untitled (Plate Group -2)
Untitled (Plate - 1)
Untitled (Plate - 2)
Remains
Darkest Hour 4
Darkest Hour 5
After All It's Always Somebody Else Who Dies

Steel with 22k gold plating | 49 × 84 inches | 2018

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