Islamabad: Life of a woman is not a bed of roses in our male chauvinist society before marriage. She continued to suffer right after the marriage too under social and family pressure, when choosing the gender of first baby is concerned, as every husband wants a son from his spouse, rebuffing the notion that all is in the hands of Almighty.
This ill practice penetrating in Pakistan’s social milieu over the years no matter the husband belongs to lower class or the upper this practice is still on. Highlighting this pivotal issue that put wife into emotional anxiety, Habiba Zaman, a young artist from Lahore, exhibited his cache of 11 miniature paintings at Khaas Gallery.
The other young miniaturist Shoaib Mehmood in his collection of eight paintings pinpointed the western cultural onslaught in Pakistani’s society.
Habiba uses pink and blue colors quite frequently symbolizing the gender. In majority of her works, she painted under garments of minors in blue and pink colors – the hanging blue undergarments are up way down while the pink is down way up, candidly highlights that what the husband requires.
A graduate of National College of Arts (NCA), Lahore with major in miniature paintings, Habiba said that pregnancy was a part of a woman’s life when she started developing maternal instincts and anxiously awaited the birth of her newborn child irrespective of the gender.
Habiba said in our society, majority of women were put under social and family pressure to have a son and what “I have tried to show in my work is a woman’s emotional self” when she is under this pressure, despite her having no control over it. “My paintings show what she endures when this expectation of her that she should bear a son and not a daughter rules her life, taking away her excitement and adding anxiousness to it.
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