Bio 
Seema Nusrat (b. 1980, Pakistan) is a visual artist based in Karachi, Pakistan. Having obtained a BFA from the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture in 2002. She went on to pursue a Masters in Fine and Media Arts from Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax, Canada. Nusrat’s work transpires from the energy found in the urban metropolis and her sculptures, drawings and collages indicate her capacity to understand the most unusual materials, which are incorporated in her oeuvre. Seema has exhibited her work within Pakistan and internationally. In Future Facades, 2020 Nusrat highlights the feeling of a growing lack of control over the environment and surroundings that we live in. This insecurity has manifested into security infrastructure of several forms, sizes and colours, which has become omnipresent in public spaces and institutions of importance, creating a new language.
Artist Statement
We increasingly feel less control over the environment and surroundings that we live in. This insecurity has manifested into security infrastructure of several forms, sizes and colours. Once an occasional occurrence, it has become omnipresent at public spaces and institutions of importance. It’s overwhelming presence and permanence often overshadows the very architecture that it evolved around, thus creating a new language.
My current work is continued documentation of this phenomenon in Karachi.
