Asad Ali Zulfiqar (b. 1995, Karachi) is a new media artist with an interdisciplinary practice that spans text, image, sound, installation, performance, and pedagogy, exploring ways of finding compassion for ourselves and others as a response to the prevailing political climate. Their work revolves around belonging (or not belonging), to our communities, lineages, built and natural environments, languages, mazhab and khud/a. Their writing praxes seek to uphold the transient nature of identity and open up time.

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With multiple international grant-awards under their belt, their works have been showcased in Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Australia, Switzerland, Myanmar, the US and the UK. They hold a BA in Communication & Design from the Habib University, and are a 200-hour certified yoga teacher. 

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Situated in Karachi, they honor the city’s Indigenous folks — the Sindhi and Baloch peoples — past and present, who have lived, known, and cared for this region over centuries of reverence and resistance. They bear witness to the historical and ongoing state violence inflicted upon these communities — the dispossession and degradation of their ancestral farmlands in Gadap and the Indus Delta, and the disappearance of the Lyari and Malir rivers and other aquatic landscapes of Karachi. Haq maujood.