Dua Abbas Rizvi

Dua Abbas Rizvi is a visual artist with a background in literature and art journalism. In her artistic practice, Rizvi draws attention to the visual and verbal expression of power in archives, histories, and cartographies. She works with both found and original printed media and textual fragments to reflect on visibility and erasure, literal and metaphysical notions of distance and contiguity, and the intersection of private and public memory.

She is currently pursuing an MFA in printmaking from the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki and was recently awarded a writing fellowship to develop her first book of nonfiction: a graphic memoir about language, colonialism, and the complex nature of inspiration, told through a Pakistani girl’s relationship with a dead English poet.