Mohammad Ali Talpur was born in 1976 in Hyderabad, Pakistan. He attended the National College of Arts in Lahore, where he obtained his Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts in 1998. Talpur aims to create "art without content" in order to return to the original craft of drawing.

In this spirit, he started producing a series of works characterized by clusters of lines made of ink, pencil or acrylic on paper. The artist found inspiration for these works in observing birds flying from the rooftop of his studio. Looking at them in motion, he traced their path in the sky with a felt tip pen on paper over and over again, almost obsessively in a meditative trance.

In the artist's machine drawing series, wh...