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Fun Fact: The Ottoman Empire And Nintendo Existed At The Same Time
2020
Oil Sticks on Kilim rug and projection

Fun Fact: The Ottoman Empire And Nintendo Existed At The Same Time (2020) explores the historic connections between textile making and computer graphics.  The textile intervention acts as a means of unravelling nonlinear historical narratives and, together with the other works in the exhibition, prompts us to reconsider the relationship between images, objects and their material histories.  
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ReOrientation ReWorked
2020
Oil Sticks inkjet printed canvas

Hasnain examines the cross overs between materials, specifically the relationship between the digital and physical. ReOrientation ReWorked (2020) shifts from woven to digital to physical. It incorporates traditional textiles and painting visuals with glitch art aesthetic and shift shapes into a lenticular image which reimagines a digital textile. Weaving layered meanings within her work, Hasnain also combines found objects and fabricated ones.

Artist Statement
2020
​Part of an ongoing interview film series

This body of work contemplates ideas of hybrid spaces and liminality, the state of belonging and transitioning between two places or stages. Drawing on the histories of the textile trade and her own experiences of living across South and South East Asia and London, artworks such as Artist Statement critically and playfully reflects on the politics and presentation of artistic labour. ​This piece is part of an ongoing interview film series which revisits the artist statement as a subversive construction of reality - through the lens of criticality and humour.

Fabricating Entropy 1
2022
Emboss print on canvas with oil sticks   

Fabricating Entropy 2
2022
Emboss print on canvas with ink block print

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About the Artist

Maryam Hina Hasnain was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan. She studied Fine Art first in Kuala Lumpur, and then in London, and currently holds a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London and an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College, University of Arts London.
Hasnain's practice is underpinned by an interest in trade, empire, migration, borders and citizenship. These themes are explored through a variety of mediums: primarily, paintings, soundscapes, installations and textile interventions. Her studio practice extends into the realm of research, curation and collaborative practice. She is an active, founding member of the artist collective: Neulinge (est. 2019). She has previously exhibited with Artlicks Weekend, London Grads Now at the Saatchi Gallery, the South Asia Institute Chicago and Anant Art in New Delhi. Hasnain most recently co-curated a project for "Late at Tate Britain x Chelsea College'' titled "Constructing Landscapes/ Building Worlds'', where she also participated as an artist. Her work was recently acquired for University Arts Londons’ permanent collection - and in 2021, she was awarded the UC Berkeley South Asia Artist Prize for the year. She was also awarded the Ashurst Art prize 2021 in the category of new media.
Hasnain now lives and practices in Karachi.

​See more at her website:
www.maryamhinahasnainstudio.com

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About the Curator

Melanie Lenz is the curator of Digital Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Based in London, she has over 15 years of experience of curating, commissioning and delivering creative projects. Specialising in digital arts and culture, Melanie co-curated Chance and Control: Art in the Age of Computers (2018-2019) and has published papers on early computer art in Latin America, gender and technology, collecting and conserving digital art.  She has convened conferences on art, design and new technologies for health and has initiated art partnerships with a variety of organisations including Women Who Code and Great Ormond Street Hospital. She is a guest lecturer at the Royal College of Art and has broadcast about digital art on Resonance FM, Radio 4 and BBC 2 ​

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