Mahbub Jokhio

Jokhio's image making practice deals with the nature of images; their claims to objectivity and ability to manipulate meaning, perception and interpretation. Having an idea led practice, Jokhio effortlessly shift between mediums in order to inquire and question image production and reception through subjects ranging from everyday to history, poetics to politics and Art to climate awareness. These investigations often incorporate irony, dark humor and self-referential critiques that locate and decode the image’s capacity to mediate reality and sense of magic realism.

For his residency, inspired by the Japanese tradition of Koinobori, Jokhio plans to conduct his research on this practice and aiming to create an art installation of Koinobori fish flags of extinct fish (for the whole world as family); the project is proposed to make awareness of the world’s lost fish including Japanese extinct and endangered fish species and as a symbol for nature’s resilience against man-made climate change.