Zara Asgher is a visual artist and educator from Lahore, Pakistan, currently living and practicing in Finland.
Through the act of drawing and painting she examines social structures that shape embodied experiences
of gender and sexuality. This interest extends to how these power dynamics shift when one moves from
a familiar cultural context to a different one.
Repetition plays a central role in this process—through repetition, norms take hold, structuring our
movements, desires, and ways of being. By tracing moments where the body slips—where it disconnects
from itself, where friction exposes the instability of what is expected— Asgher explores how new modes
of sensing and becoming emerge.
Asgher holds a BFA from National College of Arts, Lahore. She was awarded a full scholarship to pursue
an MA in Nordic Visual Studies and Art Education at Aalto University, Finland.