Born 1979 in Kachi, Balochistan, Ghulam Mohammad lives and works in Pakistan.

Ghulam Mohammad’s intricate collages of hundreds of individually cut-out Urdu alphabet letters pasted upon handcrafted wasli paper are inspired by the artist’s realization that language has the power to both unite and divide people. His own experience struggling to acquaint himself with Urdu after growing up in Balochistan, where combinations and pronunciations of basic letters are so different, seemed to make the cultural gap between himself and the society in which he was trying to settle that much more difficult to bridge. By eschewing legibility in favor of surface texture, Mohammad’s work creates a new visual language that raises questions about absence and erasure. The artist further investigates the complexities of language by often extracting letters from disused books about the Urdu language.