PAKISTAN

Fatima Butt, born in Saudi Arabia, is a visual artist currently based in Lahore, Pakistan. Fatima graduated with a Bachelors of Visual Arts from Beaconhouse National University, Pakistan. She has also taken part in several group shows in across Pakistan as well as international exhibits, such as ‘Remote Closeness’ a hybrid cultural event organised by a team of interdisciplinary cultural actors from Jordan. It is realised as part of Factory's Public Art Program by the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, the Goethe-Institut in Jordan, and the Institut Français de Jordanie and funded by the Franco-German Cultural Fund. The exhibition is made available for the public through a series of QR Code posters placed around the streets in Amman, Petra, Lahore among others.

Fatima describes her work as a research-based art practice which stretches along multiple mediums, delivering a visual essay. Growing up in a culturally diverse surrounding and travelling back and forth from her home town in Saudi Arabia to Pakistan, the concept of time became a recurring theme in her work. Fatima tends to think through the language of videography, as film is a medium that closely resembles reality. Through video installations, her work attempts to create short-lived experiences of her past in a reimagined way for larger audiences to interpret. 

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