New York: The Guild Art Gallery is pleased to present the debut solo show of Pakistani born artist Shalalae Jamil. Split Beds and Windows showcases two video works and a collection of photography.

Shalalae Jamil was born and raised in Pakistan. Educated at Bennington College and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she has exhibited and curated work in Pakistan, the United States and the U.K. Her work is in several private collections including the Arts Council in Pakistan and the Devi Art Foundation in India. Using photography, film, video, installation and elements of performance, her works target home as a region consumed by the collisions between religion, tradition and modernity. Continually investigating how perception and meaning are altered by the shifting parameters of private and public space, she incorporates autobiography as a tool to address the ambiguities of cultural belonging.  Her works lend voice to various ideological conflicts that shape contemporary life in South Asia and its Diaspora. in her essay, Zarmeene Shah writes: 

She writes:

Shalalae Jamil’s work accesses the intensely personal and the unavoidably political with an ease and an awkwardness that brings it as painfully close to real life as perhaps only the medium of video is capable of doing. Split Beds and Windows then follows the same broader trajectory that her oeuvre has had a distinct tendency to trace, in that it addresses the often highly sensitive issues embedded within the complexities of the forming of identity that unfold through inherently personal narratives of self and family, familiarity and belonging, love and loss.