UW-Madison Art Dept. | Fall 2021 Visiting Artist Colloquium – Mariam Eqbal

A Pakistani-American artist working with drawing, installation, performance, animation, video and sound, Mariam Eqbal is interested in variables and constants, as well as, the in-betweens. Repetition plays an essential role in her practice; it functions as a basic constraint expressing the constant nature of time fundamental to transformation. It represents the simplicity that is at the root of complexity and is primary in the visualization of evolutionary processes and motion. Eqbal’s practice pivots around the intersections of art, science, and philosophy, and it uses a pool of cross-disciplinary resources including drawing, the history of cinema and the moving image, design, sound, systems theory, Sufism, and time and space.