Alishba Binte Faysal

B. 2000, Quetta

'My work explores the relationship between memory, material, and identity, using old photographs of myself, family, friends, and familiar spaces as starting points. Through oil paint and charcoal, I layer, erase, and rework these images, allowing them to transform intuitively. This process of making and unmaking traces personal histories while translating memory into a physical and emotional experience.'

Alishba Binte Faysal (b. 2000, Quetta, Pakistan) is a Karachi-based visual artist specializing in painting. She holds a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts (Painting) from the National College of Arts, Lahore.

Her practice revolves around memory, process, and materiality. Working primarily with oil paints and charcoal, she engages in an intuitive process of layering, erasing, and reworking. Drawing from old family photographs of herself, her parents, friends, and familiar spaces, her work becomes a way of tracing where she comes from and how those histories shape identity. These photographs act as both personal and collective archives, holding stories that transform as they pass through her painterly process.

Her works have been exhibited in Lahore at the Degree Show 2024, National College of Arts; Tagh’eer Creative Space; Ejaz Art Gallery; Numaish Gah; O Art Space; and Ocean Art Gallery, and in Karachi at ArtScene Gallery. She currently lives and works in Karachi.