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Mehrgarh, one of the oldest known civilisations on earth, is a recurring gravitational pull, not invoked as historical backdrop, but approached as a living archive whose Neolithic material world she has sat with long enough to feel its strange proximity to now.\u003cbr\u003eMaleeha works primarily in two registers, acrylic painting and unbaked terracotta. In paint, she builds through photomontage, pulling symbols and visual shards from mythologies and theologies across traditions, setting them against each other until something new stirs between them. In clay, she sculpts figures that resist the tidiness of archaeological reconstruction: unfamiliar, evocative forms that push against the clean certainties of historical narrative. The unbaked surface is deliberately unfinished, slightly vulnerable, closer to the earth than to the museum. Across both, the making is preceded by deep research, as though each work has to be excavated before it can be built.\u003cbr\u003eShe has exhibited widely across Pakistan and internationally; from Islamabad to Lahore, and from South Africa to Brazil, India, and the United States. Recent appearances include South Asian Playground at Mool Gallery in Delhi (2025), Partition is Imaginary at the Seattle Office of Arts \u0026amp; Culture (2025), COP30 at Mabe Gallery in Brazil (2025), and a bsent matter(s) at the New Futures Arts Collaborative in South Africa (2025). In 2025, she received the AABP Practitioner Fellowship grant for Sacred Thresholds: Mandir–Masjid Entanglements in Sindh, and undertook residencies at the Islamabad Biennale and the New Futures Art Collective in Johannesburg.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"divine-punishment","title":"Divine Punishment","description":"\u003cp\u003eDivine Punishment explores the tension between devotion, fear, and moral imagination. 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