Afrah Shafiq is a multimedia artist based out of Goa, India. Using the process of research as an artistic playground, Afrah intertwines archival findings, history, memory, folklore and fantasy to create a speculative world born of remix culture. Her work takes hybrid forms that bring together text, sound, animation, code, and sculpture to create interactive, sometimes simulated atmospheres to experience and unlearn. She often seeks ways to retain the tactile within the digital and the poetry within technology.

Her work has been included in the Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh, 2023; Video Art Pavilion at the Asian Art Biennale, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, 2022; Lahore Biennial (LB02), Lahore Pakistan; 2019; Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India, 2018, WorldBuilding: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist At Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf and Centre Pompidou-Metz; “Very Small Feelings” at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, among other exhibitions in India and globally.

She has been a research fellow at the Institut d’études avancées de Nantes, France, attended an archival research residency in Texas and New Mexico with Fluent Collaborative, been a fellow at the Field Research Programme by the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow and worked with a series of archives in the North of England through a New North and South residency with the Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art.

Afrah is currently developing a body of work centered around Ants and Data titled ‘Where Do The Ants Go’ as part of the “To-gather” International Collaboration Grant by Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council.

When she is not glued to her computer she makes glass mosaic.