A detailed and complex imaginary world, often inhabited by a series of characters, landscapes, and narratives that allows us to access the depth of our innermost thoughts and
emotions. Materializing dreams, fears and desires in a vivid and tangible form that immerses the dreamer on a journey of profound imagination and uncharted terrains of imagination.
These portals to private and personal realms are a source of solace, sanity, fascination, and inspiration for individuals since infancy, allowing them to escape the societal shackles and complexities of life that one has to bear and propels to explore countless possibilities. The line between reality and fantasy blurs, one starts to question the boundaries of their own imaginations. The contemplation of the worlds we inhibit within ourselves, prompts self-reflection of how these inner landscapes influence our perceptions of the external world. A figment of imagination brought alive within the dimension we exist.
Constructed with the profound capacity of creative minds, these immersive realms of “Paracosm” invite you to step into the enchanted world of parallel reality.
Khadija S. Akhtar
Khadija S. Akhtar is a Karachi based visual artist. She received her BFA from the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture in 2019 with a distinction in her thesis, and was placed
on the Dean’s List. Akhtar majored in Traditional Miniature Painting and New Media Art. In January 2020, she was chosen to participate in This is Me: Identity and Art in an Emerging Pakistan (Ohio, USA), where she was selected as one of the ten artists for the nationwide exhibition. Akhtar was also one of the ten winners who received the Young Artist Award for ‘Best Artwork of the Year’, amongst 410 participants in the national exhibition Resilience, at the Alhamra Art Center (Lahore, Pakistan). Khadija has also worked along-side various local and international platforms, including Manchester Museum, Aafrinish by Niazi and Marvi Mazhar & Associates. She is currently working on the international, collaborative project Artdom, founded by Arghavan Agida, the former Goodwill Ambassador for UN women in Sweden. Khadija is also one of the three recipients of the Arjumand Painting Award, 2021.
Hifza Khan
Hifza Khan, born in 1987, is a visual artist and art educator currently based in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. She completed her BFA from the National College of Arts, Lahore specializing
in Miniature Painting in 2012 where she received a distinction.
Currently living and working as an visiting teacher at National College of Arts Rawalpindi, Khan has extensively displayed her work locally in group shows in Lahore, Islamabad and Karachi. She has actively participated in the annual ‘Young Artist’s Exhibition’ organized by the Lahore Art Council. Hifza has also been involved in the transformation project held at the National College of Art, Lahore in 2008. Alongside this, she has worked with different publications applying her skills towards designing book illustrations and titles. Selected shows of Khan include Breaking the Mould at Satrang Gallery; Young Artist’s Exhibition at Nairang Gallery; Common Dimensions at Artscene Gallery; Recollection at Taseer Art Gallery; Revelation at Ejaz Gallery, Lahore; a five-person group show at Creative Art Gallery; and Resilience, Annual Young Artists Exhibition, Alhamra Art Council Gallery, in 2020. She worked as an art instructor and event organizer of annual academic calendar events at the Lahore Grammar School Paragon Campus, Lahore from 2014 to 2020.
Khan has also worked on some privately commissioned projects in particular under the guidance of Mrs Nighat Ali, Director of Lahore Grammar School Group. She completed a calligraphy commission for the Imam Bargah Hali Road, Lahore in 2020. Select artworks of hers are housed within the permanent collection of the Ambiance Boutique Art Hotel Karachi.
Brishna Amin Khan
Brishna Amin Khan is a Lahore based artist. She completed her degree in visual arts from NCA in 2019 with a major in miniature painting and minor in Calligraphy and
from the same institution did a Master’s degree (2012). Mughal has been actively networking within art circles and aims to establish his art practice critically. As a fashion designer, Mughal uses his artistic freedom and connection to indigenous art, pop culture and literature in design and painting, finding his own contemporary expression. He has worked with many established fashion brands as well as exhibiting art in several group shows with prominent galleries.He exhibited in multiple shows including Annual Pop-up Show at Tagheer (2023), Call for Art 3.0 Karachi Collection at Ambiance Hotel (2023), he was a coordinator at Art Saraye Residency: A project of Art Otaq (2022), Juice Box; an online Group Exhibition at Rupture Xibit Gallery (2022), Art For Humanity; an online group exhibition at O Art Space Gallery (2022) and Firefly Dreams at Muse Galleries (2022).
Imran Mughal
Imran Mughal, born in 1987, is a visual artist based in Lahore, Pakistan. He graduated with distinction in Textile Art from College of Art Design, University of the Punjab (2010) and
from the same institution did a Master’s degree (2012).
Mughal has been actively networking within art circles and aims to establish his art practice critically. As a fashion designer, Mughal uses his artistic freedom and connection to indigenous art, pop culture and literature in design and painting, finding his own contemporary expression. He has worked with many established fashion brands as well as exhibiting art in several group shows with prominent galleries.
He exhibited in multiple shows including Annual Pop-up Show at Tagheer (2023), Call for Art 3.0 Karachi Collection at Ambiance Hotel (2023), he was a coordinator at Art Saraye Residency: A project of Art Otaq (2022), Juice Box; an online Group Exhibition at Rupture Xibit Gallery (2022), Art For Humanity; an online group exhibition at O Art Space Gallery (2022) and Firefly Dreams at Muse Galleries (2022).
