Kiran Riaz, East meets West, digital print on canvas, 8′ x 5′, 2016
Kiran Riaz grew up in Pakistan and moved to Dublin for her MFA. Her practice revolves around the counterbalance between Western and Eastern cultures. The work deals with cultural perceptions and her own experience of living between East and West. Riaz explores beauty, terrorism, religion and stereotypes of Eastern men as adversaries post 9/11. She has combined the Pakistani textile motif of Ajarak with Irish lace patterns in a mosaic format, using Photoshop software and traditional miniature painting. The work alludes to the mysteries and layers of visual storytelling from both societies, by revealing and concealing our combined histories.
Kiran Riaz, Untitled, acrylic on canvass, 12 x 12 inches, 2016
Kiran Riaz, performance, sketch printing on T-shirt, (Austin Hearne), 2016
Kiran Riaz, Who am I, colour pencil, on canvas, 2016
Kiran Riaz, Untitled, acrylics on canvas, 20×20 cm, 2016
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