Yarn, 2019
Sohaila Baluch
Sohaila Baluch is an interdisciplinary artist with a research-based practice that draws from feminist strategies to unite performance and fibre arts with female diasporic experience. Her work engages with durational processes that prioritise the notion of gendered labour to challenge dominant aesthetics and hegemonic discourses.
Sohaila is a PhD Candidate at the Royal College of Art, London, UK and a recipient of the London Arts and Humanities Scholarship. Her research is focused on disrupting established and traditional narratives that tell racialised bodies they do not belong. Building on postcolonial feminist theories on identity and contemporary notions of diaspora she employs embodied and performative knowledge as a mode of resistance, to reimagine belonging. In 2022, Sohaila was selected with nine other artists to form the inaugural cohort of Art School Plus.