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Born in 1970, Adeela Suleman did her BFA in Sculpture from Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi, Pakistan (1999) and MA in International Relations from the University of Karachi (1995). She lives and works in Karachi, Pakistan.

Her oeuvre deals primarily with transforming mundane, found objects and materials from our daily lives into sculptural forms with multiple references. Her earlier works spoke to the...
Born in 1970, Adeela Suleman did her BFA in Sculpture from Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi, Pakistan (1999) and MA in International Relations from the University of Karachi (1995). She lives and works in Karachi, Pakistan.

Her oeuvre deals primarily with transforming mundane, found objects and materials from our daily lives into sculptural forms with multiple references. Her earlier works spoke to the private, domestic spheres of women and their constricted existence. Her sculptures; body armors, helmets and corsets were made from kitchen utensils and functional tools painted decoratively. Always aesthetically pleasing, their beauty underlined the artist’s quiet commentary on the place of women in society.

Subsequently, her work has been concerned with the political turmoil in Pakistani society. Flatter in volume, she creates tableaux on steel sheets, using pastoral images and symbols of destruction like images of weapon. Like in her earlier works, these juxtapositions of contradictory imagery create narratives of the extant violence in society and the indifference of society to it.

Trained as a sculptor, Adeela Suleman works with crafts people in Pakistan in creating these three-dimensional bodies of work, thus making the art more inclusive and rooted in the culture that it originates from.

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