In the drawings presented at the Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, Fatima Kaleem Khan offers a new perspective on female characters from South Asian soap operas. These dramas often centre on college-age girls and their mothers who raise them, revealing how ideas of womanhood are shaped within the home and educational spaces. Having attended more than a dozen schools across Pakistan as a child, Kaleem Khan became acutely aware of how history and femininity are narrated differently depending on who is telling the story.

Throughout these drawings, she returns to the female antagonist of the soap opera, a character often portrayed as manipulative or possessed. Rather than treating her as a stereotypical villain, the artist reimagines her as a figure of a quiet resistance, whose exaggerations and alternative modes of storytelling challenge the propaganda structures the state depends on.

Within the installation, a sequence titled 8.07 AM, 8.44 AM takes the form of an open textbook, capturing two simultaneous moments from a school morning assembly. The school morning assembly, which students are expected to attend regardless of whether they are late, symbolizes the discipline embedded in daily routine. Throughout the work, the recurring multi-headed figure, intertwined with synthetic hair, signals the artificiality and false fashioning produced by uniform discipline.