Afrah Shafiq is a multi/new media artist based out of Goa, India. Using the process of research as an artistic playground, Afrah intertwines archival findings, history, memory, folklore and fantasy to create a speculative world born of remix culture. Her work moves across various mediums drawing from the handmade language of traditional folk forms and connecting them to the digital language of the Internet and video games.

Her work has been included in the 2023 Dhaka Art Summit, 2nd Lahore, 4th Kochi- Muziris and the 8th Asian Art biennales besides other exhibitions in India and abroad.

She has been a research fellow at the Institut d’études avancées de Nantes, France, attended an archival research residency in Texas and New Mexico with Fluent Collaborative, been a fellow at the Field Research Programme by the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow and worked with a series of archives in the North of England through a New North and South residency with the Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art.

Afrah is currently developing a body of work centered around Ants and Data titled ‘Where Do The Ants Go’ as part of the “To-gather” International Collaboration Grant by Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council.

When she is not glued to her computer she makes glass mosaic.