Ali Shariq jamali
Artist
Ali Shariq Jamali (b. 1994) is a creative practitioner who works and lives in Lahore. He completed his BFA from National College of Arts, Lahore in 2018. He continued his education at the Beaconhouse National University in Lahore and received his MFA in Art and Design Studies in 2021. Shariq has exhibited widely nationally and was a resident of Vasl Artists’ Association’s Taza Tareen 13 residency in 2021. Shariq was also part of EART: A manifesto of possibilities a project conceived by Rashid Rana, MIF 2021 at dantzic. Shariq currently teaches at Beaconhouse National University, Lahore
Shariq’s practice draws perceptual trajectory of human mind and its ability to conceive contradiction. Creating parallel and partial realities, his work deals with possible and impossible, truth and fiction, real and imaginary, tangible and intangible. Using eminent critic John Berger’s words to illustrate his propensity for the liminal space between the possible and impossible, Shariq attempts to manipulate physical laws by altering his audience’s perception of space and time:
“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set, we know the earth is turning away from it, yet the knowledge, the explanation never quite fits the sight” – John Berger.