Profile
Maham Chiragh is a multidisciplinary artist, curator and researcher based in Pakistan. Maham experiments with visual mediums, sound and writing as a part of her individual practice, invoking ideas around gender, the sacred, memory and relationship to land. She is deeply interested in listening for the multitude of ways in which bodies (human, spatial, ecological, mystical) are in a constant act of forming/impressing upon one another.
Her larger practice involves co-creating and collaborating to dream spaces for collective exploration and exchange outside of institutions, centering alternative, embodied forms of relating to our worlds. The spaces are also a way to consider who we gather and dream with. Curation and research have been a way to articulate spaces for witnessing, remembering, and imagining decolonial narratives that involve participatory approaches, workshops, conversations and a depth of engagement within the contexts she is working in.
Chiragh has previously received a research fellowship at the University of Cambridge, Centre of South Asian studies, was assistant curator at the Karachi Biennale 2022, and has served on the board of directors at Charles Street Video, a media arts organization in Toronto. She co-founded The Dabke Collective (with Tanya Qadir) in Toronto in 2016, a multidisciplinary artist collective, which continues to serve as a space for collaboration. She has been a recipient of grants from the CCA and Sud KulturFonds among others.
