Writings

• "Longing for my Metamorphosis by Aanya Mukhtyar is a textural feast that balances the boisterous and dainty. Transfixed, I imagined all the times I'd seen that little girl's wistful look on my sister and female cousins while they were growing up." - Asimov Baker Read more
• Mukhtyar’s investigation arrives at a felicitous moment. There is a palpable return to the spiritual in times of crisis — and we find ourselves in multiple, overlapping ones. What gives us hope? What sustains our will to fight? Though Mukhtyar may frame her practice largely in aesthetic terms, I would argue that (1) she approaches aesthetics through a spiritual lens, and (2) in investigating spirituality, she is excavating what it means to feel, to inhabit a body, to be human. She does so distinctly, through an ambitious weaving of references: mathematical patterns in Islamic art, the colour theories of Sonia Delaunay, narratives from Indian epics. Her British South Asian identity informs this referencing deeply, though it functions less as subject matter and more as the lens through which she sees. - Tobi Ibiye Makinde “The Quiet Reach of the Spiritual in Aanya Mukhtyar’s Practise” (Penlicenced issue 1)