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My image-making practice deals with the nature of images, their claims to objectivity and their ability to manipulate meaning, perception and interpretation. Working in various media, I try to inquire and question image production and reception through subjects ranging from every day to history and poetics to politics. These investigations often incorporate irony, dark humour and self-referential critiques that locate and decode the image’s capacity to mediate reality. My selection of any medium depends on the conceptual needs of the idea or subject I work with. Mainly, I change or shift to different media depending on my immediate and evolving concerns. As an image-maker, apart from initiating different discourses on medium’s critique, visual perception and illusion, relationship/contradiction of two-dimensionality with three-dimensionality, lingual and visual contradictions and self-referentiality; one of my intentions is to make explicit the means of display and construction as both content and mode of interpretations. My aim is to create work that involves visual and verbal deception, illusion, and lies involving an intention to expose, making, setting, execution and context. Furthermore, I am interested in paying attention to the relationships among how we know, what we read and what we see. Apart from being a job, the need to express visually is a conscious necessity, so all my practice has strong personal associations that tend to go beyond me, as I believe in the objectivity of a subjective situation. The ideas of love, separation, longing, death, falling, binary contradictions ((visual-verbal, 2D-3D, physical-virtual) and processes of reading, looking and making are some of the fundamental interests that surround my practice.
Biography Mahbub Jokhio was born in Mahrabpur, Pakistan in 1992. Graduating with Distinction from Beaconhouse National University in visual arts as UMISSA scholar, Jokhio currently teaches at Beaconhouse National University, Lahore. Having shown work at several local and international venues, including ‘Partition Perspectives’, Crossings Gallery, Harvard Ed. Portal, Allston, US. In 2018 ‘East meets west’, Preview show of the winning works, Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Italy, in 2018 ‘Multiple Narratives’, Grosvenor Gallery, London, UK, in 2018 Epiphany, Piazza Sant’Andrea, Palermo, Italy, and in 2013 Extra-Ordinary---37 Art ideas for free, Curated by Rashid Rana, Canvas Gallery, Karachi. His work ‘Museum of Wasted Loves’ was commissioned by Karachi Biennale2017. He has been awarded national and international residencies, including the Gasworks Residency at London and IFTCF Emerging Artist award, Italy. He had his first solo exhibition, “In the city of Lost Times”, at The Tetley, Leeds, UK and was awarded Al-Balad Residency by the Ministry of Culture Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and a Research Fellowship at Lakshmi Mittal Institute, Harvard University. Jokhio was recently awarded an artist residency at the upcoming Malt Artist in Residence Program in Ebeltoft, Denmark.
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