Sultan’s most recent paintings explore the aesthetics of consumerism through the examination of advertising and food packaging. The works provide a witty commentary on our consumer society, much like the Pop Art imagery which Sultan references. The figuration in these paintings is vertiginously stacked in a way that mimics the flattened perspective of the early miniature tradition.
Sultan’s paintings are largely intuitive and explore the process of making a painting, perhaps even more so than the narrative and representative nature of painting. The compositions are often unplanned and imprecise, executed with a gestural and unsteady brushstroke, often on unconventional surfaces that change the nature of the paint.
Sultan has exhibited in both group and solo shows across Europe and in her native Pakistan. Sultan has been an artist in residence two years in a row at Glogauair Berlin and in 2017, her work was selected for an exhibition of 50 Contemporary Artists with the Enter Art Foundation in Berlin. In 2018 she had an exhibition at the Subjectobject gallery in Berlin.