Iman Ahmed is a multidisciplinary artist, writer and illustrator. She graduated from the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture with an overall
distinction in 2023. Born in Karachi, she continues to base her practice there, drawing inspiration from the city’s gendered household spaces.
Her research interests focus on the history of drawing rooms in contemporary South Asian bungalows and the aesthetics that define these postcolonial
domestic spaces, in relation to contemporary movements of patterns, heirlooms and families across time, space and ownership. Her research extends
into the desire to preserve and archive family memories and is articulated through drawing, photography and printmaking, questioning the extent
to which photographs and albums retain accuracy as a record of history.
Her work disrupts and transforms the feminine space and its heirlooms, as it moves through time and between generations of families, exploring
moments of grief and longing. She recreates such movements, migrations, wear and tear through her organic image transfers, mixing different
recipes of glues, paints and organic pastes to shift photographs across mediums, textures and surfaces to create printed woodcut plates. Spaces
where the print warps and alters are acknowledged, slight shifts in the print reminiscent of real-world disruptions.