Khushboo

Born in Karachi, Pakistan, Khushboo is an artist, art educator, researcher, and DIY- and craft-enthusiast. Based in India and London, UK, she received the Inlaks Scholarship to pursue her MFA at Goldsmiths, University of London (2022–2024) and graduated in Visual Arts specialising in Painting from MSU Baroda in India.

Khushboo’s relocation from Pakistan to India in 2009 increased her fascination with the concepts of maps, borders, city limits, and everything related to geographical locations. She has found it surprising that borders can create and divide places at the same time. Her practice draws from the universal experience of shifting places, finding new homes, and adjusting to and absorbing new spaces. Larger issues of migration, nationalism, citizenship, land ownership, climate change, and non-script language narratives intertwine throughout her artistic research.

Interlacing the domains of painting, sculpture, and installation in her practice, Khushboo uses non-traditional cartographic and map-making techniques to create archaeological objects that comment on the agency, accessibility, and conflict in geopolitical and territorial divisions of the land. To create alternatives and counter-maps, she also creates fictional parallel archives and narratives – known as the genre of ‘para-fiction’ in contemporary art – whilst working with colonial documents and archival objects.