Document and Location announce new member Huma Mulji

We are delighted to announce the addition of a new member to the Document and Location research group.

Huma Mulji has an abiding interest in examining the specificity of place, the city, and its collective memory. Her anti-heroic works amplify a perpetual discomfort and scepticism from the perspective of both observer and participant, in the face of colonialism and capitalism.

Critically exploring locale against a backdrop of economic globalisation, state and military power, the artist works across media, using photography, collage, drawing and sculptural installation. Mulji has exhibited widely internationally and in her native Pakistan including in Karachi Biennale; Pakistan, 2017; Venice Biennale, Italy, 2015; and 10th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea, 2014. She has won a number of prestigious awards including the Nigaah Award for photography in 2017 and the Abraaj Group Art Prize 2013.

Huma Mulji was recently appointed as Senior Lecturer in Fine Arts at the University of the West of England, Bristol. We are thrilled to welcome Mulji as a new member of Document and Location and look forward to supporting the dissemination of her work and research. Mulji will subsequently draw on her active international networks to expand the possibilities for Document and Location to work with new partners beyond the UK, especially in South Asia and the Middle East.

Learn more about Huma Mulji’s practice by exploring her project Dry Cleaners here.