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Shehrbano Salahuddin

Shehrbano Salahuddin is a Lahore-based artist whose practice merges traditional weaving techniques with contemporary materials. Drawing
on her background in mathematics, art, and architecture, she transforms brass, copper, and steel into intricate woven surfaces, forms, and
objects that exist between fine art, craft, and sculpture. Through a process that combines geometric precision with intricate craftsmanship, her
work challenges conventional perceptions of metal, revealing unexpected qualities of softness, movement, and light.

“My practice is a dialogue between tradition and innovation: an ode to my love for old things and new ideas. Working primarily with brass,
copper and steel, I weave these metals together and transform them into intricate surfaces and sculptural forms. Through repetition, pattern
and structure, individual elements become part of a larger system, generating forms that shift with light and reveal an unexpected complexity.
My background in mathematics, art and architecture continues to shape the way I think. Geometry, rhythm and structure are not simply visual
devices in my work; they are ways of understanding the world. I am interested in the relationship between order and unpredictability, and in
how complexity can emerge from the repeated application of simple rules. Many of my works draw inspiration from textiles, armour, sacred
geometry and historical objects. I am fascinated by the knowledge embedded within traditional craft practices and by the ways in which those
traditions can evolve when placed in conversation with new materials and contemporary forms. I am particularly interested in the relationship
between pattern, geometry, material and human perception. Across cultures and throughout history, geometry has been used to shape spaces,
objects and environments in ways that affect how we feel and experience the world around us. Through the repetition of woven structures and
the interaction of brass, copper and steel, I explore how material, rhythm, light and pattern can influence our sense of presence, attention and
connection to space and ourselves.

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