ahra Jewanjee is a graduate from the National College of Arts, Pakistan; she studied the first two years of her bachelor's degree in Indus Valley School of Arts, Karachi and felt the move to Lahore would be cathartic to both her and her work. There she developed fascinating grotesque metaphors into universal imagery that manifested her own individual spirit. Equally at home painting or behind the lens she seamlessly creates symmetry between the two different mediums that informs and articulates her own personal landscape.
Interlacing intricate patterns her paintings became descriptions of social interaction, describing her interest in a society that makes different and marginalized communities unite and form social patterns.
Exploring these sub-cultural spaces allowed me to study the deep rooted cause of why societies exist in small groups and how they are interwoven within each other: hypothetically framing these into small groups in a self-similar pattern, a pattern of behavior, a social pattern, a pattern of relationships and thus creating a complex system or 'Meme'. Similarly through photography, using the same vocabulary of gender-relationships to cross gender identity, I'm looking at the Jungian theory of man (Anima-Ego) and woman (Animas-to breadth) that
As a Painter I thoroughly enjoy experimentation, I love exploring different techniques and creating my own vocabulary. Nothing is a restricted be it expression, ideas or thoughts. I allow my expression to constantly mutate and challenge from Painting to Photography and I'm just as comfortable painting alone in the studio as shooting outdoor on the street