Basir Mahmood
Basir Mahmood (born in 1985 in Pakistan) lives and works between Lahore and Amsterdam. Working with video, film, and photography, he creates poetic sequences that contemplate embedded social and historical terrains of the ordinary, as well as his personal milieu.
His narratives often revolve around everyday objects, gestures, situations, and events. He explores spaces that stretch between identity, distance, memory, the fantastical imagination of others, and a melancholy derived from social injustice, inequity, and the structures of hierarchy.
Residency supported by Mondriaan Fonds.
"Total Eclipse" (2025) Medium: 100 × 150 (cm), Archival pigment print on Museo Max paper.
"Brown Bodies in an Open Landscape are Often Migrating" (2024) Medium: Video Installation. Commissioned and produced by: Fondazione In Between Art Film. Exhibition: “Nebula,” Complesso dell’Ospedaletto, Venice, 2024. Courtesy: The artist and Fondazione In Between Art Film. Photo: Lorenzo Palmieri.
"My Father" (2010). Video.