Muzzumil Ruheel
The alternate life of lies
The investigation of documented history is what defines this body of work. A premeditated, calculative, and exhaustive analysis of how history through its ages, in all its forms of documentation has been manipulated. Where facts are made ambiguous so that they are not lies, yet they bear no semblance of the truth either. Where the lies used are also not lies, but retarded saplings of imperialistic ideals or just plain autocratic ego and hate.
Frieze London
2025
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Its Only Words
A piece of fiction, which is there, and yet holds no existence; based on truths, yet alive in stories, it lives and deviates its realities from one’s words to another’s perceptions. It is these perceptions that a raconteur plays with, revealing accounts that create visuals in our minds. How the audience perceives the characters is at the narrator’s leverage. How much fiction is part of a story and how much of it is the truth depends on what he chooses to exaggerate, what he delicately omits, and what point of view is presented.
Son of Punjab
Rai Abdullah Bhatti known as Dullah, was a revolutionary from the region of Punjab in the Indian Sub-continent. His revolts were aimed at the Mughal empire during Akbar’s rule.
As the courts recorded everything then; Dullah has been omitted from our history, only to be remembered as a bandit. However, he lives in our local folklores as a freedom fighter who stood against the rich for the oppressed.
