Ali Sattar is a visual artist and colorist whose practice explores the relationship between landscape, memory, and color. Based in Karachi, his work moves between photography, material research, and digital media, with a focus on how color functions as an emotional and archival language.

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In 2024, Ali was selected for Echoes of Karoonjhar—an artist residency organized by Lahooti Melo, the British Council, and Invisible Flock—held at the Karoonjhar Commune in Nagarparkar, Sindh. During the residency, he developed a project centered on documenting the chromatic identity of the Karoonjhar landscape. Through color samples, photographic studies, and light observations, he sought to create a living archive that reflects the mountain’s ecological, spiritual, and cultural presence.

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Ali’s process is grounded in fieldwork and sensory mapping. He treats color as both material and metaphor—an element that connects people to place and holds within it the memory of time, terrain, and transformation. Though much of his collected data was lost in an unfortunate incident, a few surviving images graded during his stay now stand as fragments of a larger visual narrative.

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His ongoing work continues to explore themes of loss, remembrance, and reconstruction within visual archives—using color as a bridge between the tangible and the remembered, the seen and the felt.