Afrah Shafiq

Using the process of research as an artistic playground, Afrah Shafiq’s (b.1989 is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Goa, India) creates work that emerges from long-term engagements with archives, both institutional and informal, stories, and other fugitive material across the internet. Her work intertwines history, memory, folklore, and fantasy to create a speculative world born of remix culture. Through a diversity of research modes and devices, the work is informed from practices of reading, organising, plotting, and classifying. Shafiq is interested in the rupturing of existing narratives, ‘searching’ for the invisible, and creating subversive, speculative new ways of looking at the familiar. Her work takes hybrid forms that bring together text, sound, animation, video games, and sculpture to create interactive, sometimes simulated, atmospheres to experience and unlearn. She seeks ways to retain the tactile within the digital and poetry within technology.