Bio (b. 26-11-1990) . Due to my father’s designation I never could stuck to one school because of postings from city to city, so basically my firs school was Army Public Schoool Mangla Cantt. Then from city to city and school to school till my last graduation from National College of Arts Lahore. I majored in Painting but love other art fields as well, like I’ve been doing sculpture as well and once thought about majoring in it but there was something with more magnetism and that was painting. During the days of my college learning I used to be highly inspired from Leonardo Da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Raphael and even my own teachers often. During my college days I was really inspired by my seminar class taught by Quddus Mirza, it used to be a very well debated class where all the students would speak up their ideas and thoughts about art and more, where at times I learned some very broadminded knowledge from my teacher. Statement It’s a concept I encountered during the very hard days of my learning and a time that I shall be grateful to. Nothing is true, depicting the very usual behavior of human being i.e. we believe what we see and despise what we don't understand. . You see chalk but it is not, charcoal is ‘not what you think it is, you see dust but actually is paint, hard is soft and understanding is rare. As I've observed that nothing is true in this world because everything is already true to our most betraying eyes, truth is common logic is rare. I felt that I can deceive people in a most obvious way the way people normally believe what they see. Chalkboards, Brick wall and my Animal series have been one of my most important executions because I believe that all this life is a huge chalkboard where we all express ourselves in a way that can be overwritten and erased easily. All chalkboards depict the practical experience of my life and how I managed to keep all these thoughts on rest until my work is being executed. Hidden In Plain Sight
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A true citizen of the world, I have spent much of my life on the move. I have lived in Pakistan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Toronto, London, Dubai and now call Bahrain home. I am self-taught and have enjoyed the process of educating myself in ceramics by researching, reading and experimenting. I attended George Brown College in Toronto to study Jewellery Design. This has allowed me to incorporate metal smith techniques in my ceramic work as well as to create jewellery out of earthenware. Hidden In Plain Sight Statement Building a mural, urn, vase or carving a sculpture is always a unique experience for me. I rarely have an exact final image in mind. I mostly let the endless possibilities of form, scale, texture and function that forever change with the mood of both creator and clay, determine my ultimate work of art. The majority of my pieces are hand-built as hand building gives me a sense of freedom. After the first firing with clay getting converting to ceramic is when the painter in me comes alive. I often times feel that I am a painter who makes pottery. I try to use fun, playful and narrative images onto three dimensional clay canvases. The sculptural aspect of the forms I do opens up endless possibilities of creativity for me. The stories in my pieces are an expression of my visual stimuli and my fanciful imagination. BIO Mobeen is a photojournalist, painter and sculptor based in Islamabad,Pakistan. A graduate of National College of Arts in Rawalpindi,Pakistan, his mission is to promote a positive and often unseen side of his country through his photographs. Challenged with loss of hearing at a very early age,Mobeen has always been observant of his surroundings and translates those visually through different mediums. He has traveled across Pakistan and focuses on places off the beaten path-especially South Punjab and Wakhan Corridor up far North. In 2014 he published a photography book called 'Dharkan: the Heartbeat of a Nation' which features portraits and stories of iconic people and unsung heroes of Pakistan. His next book is on religious minorities of Pakistan, which is titled 'White in the Flag'. .He has given two TED talks and has exhibited his works in USA,Italy, China,Pakistan, India and Iraq. Mobeen has also made a film 'Hellhole' which is a short silent film based on the life of conservancy workers, better known as gutter cleaners as seen through the life and oft forgotten humanity of one such worker.
Bio Luís Felipe Keresztes Bigatto is a software engineer and computer enthusiast with a not-so-secret passion for communication. Speaker of an ever-growing list of languages, his devotion to the science behind the very phenomenon of communication in all of its known forms has led him to write the paper "The Relationship Between Computer Languages and Human Communication",researching the linkages between languages and computer software.Although his day job is developing commercial software, apps, websites and databases, he has a soft spot for art initiatives, finding them enriching and fulfilling to the human mind. He also believes privacy to be a human right, and thus fights to spread awareness about back doors that are so deep rooted in modern computers that even most processors can no longer be trusted, and thus advocates for end-user freedom, advocating computer alternatives, for every end-user is human, not an inanimate object. Statement Combining their different skill sets, Amna Hashmi, a visual artist, specializing in miniature painting, and Luís Felipe Keresztes Bigatto, a software engineer, wish to explore the possibilities of multiple ‘endings’ that one could reach through the choices one makes and the narratives that form from each choice’s journey.All events in life are interconnected with each other, yet, depending on the choices one makes, the results can be entirely different. The manner in which events, originating from a singular situation, occur, are not always so linear –depending on our choices and actions –while things that are intended may happen as they were planned, the journey to it could takean entirely different route depending upon the decisions we take midst it. Alternately, due toone’s choices, one could possibly arrive at an ending which differs entirely from the original intended one –an alternate/parallel reality, perhaps one can call it; in the same space, an absolutely different result depending upon one’s decisions.This work seeks to explore these possibilities and the multiple routes that present TO THE COFFEE CAVE _ 2019
Bio Amna Hashmi is a visual artist and art educationist, specializing in the art of miniature painting. Combining her interest in historical illuminated manuscripts with her love for Japaneses Manga, her work has evolved around her primary interest of story telling and recording of historical events- exploring the boundaries that exist between actual facts and creation of myths, saturated lives.she has part of numerous group shows locally and internationally . Hashmi is currently teaching as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture and Design at COMSATS Institute of Information Technology , Islamabad. Statement Combining their different skill sets, Amna Hashmi, a visual artist, specializing in miniature painting, and Luís Felipe Keresztes Bigatto, a software engineer, wish to explore the possibilities of multiple ‘endings’ that one could reach through the choices one makes and the narratives that form from each choice’s journey. All events in life are interconnected with each other, yet, depending on the choices one makes, the results can be entirely different. The manner in which events, originating from a singular situation, occur, are not always so linear – depending on our choices and actions – while things that are intended may happen as they were planned, the journey to it could take an entirely different route depending upon the decisions we take midst it. Alternately, due toone’s choices, one could possibly arrive at an ending which differs entirely from the original intended one – an alternate/parallel reality, perhaps one can call it; in the same space, an absolutely different result depending upon one’s decisions.This work seeks to explore these possibilities and the multiple routes that present TO THE COFFEE CAVE _ 2019 BREAKING THE MOULD _ 2012 Statement If the presence of a existing space(and people themselves within ) are defined by the words used to describe them, and these words are what lends it it’s very sense of reality , then in that case, is a world created out of pure words is as real as any other?An alternate space which is created entirely out of alphabets and numbers -a space where, using these very alphabets, one can create an entirely new world. And in this world, one can be whatever one wants to be, however long one wishes to be, all boundaries reduced to nothing, until you are ready to pull the plug and log out.This work documents the (partial) tale of two people who sought to create a living being by creating a personality in this alternate space and downloading it into a shell of their making, in their own world. An experiment to create a human born Bio Hassan Shah Gilani is a self-taught artist based out of Islamabad. He has been focusing on art since the past five years, before which he was working in multiple freelance art forms for 8 years. Initially practicing art independently; in the past 3 years he has taken part in multiple shows. Using the pen for abstract line-work and the pencil for sketching figures. With framing that gives the art another dimension. StatementBeneficent progression in life rarely comes easy. From what works and what all needs to be mixed for favorable outcomes. The list of things (external and internal) one needs to be mindful of for that would be extensive, but at some level Hope, Opportunity & Chance factor in to a great degree. Simple lines have been used to represent these three basics of a life moving forward towards better. CROSSING LINES _ 2019 BioAnushka Rustomji Musa (b. Karachi, 1989) is an artist and educator. She graduatedfrom the National College of Arts in Lahore with a B.FA in 2012. Rustomji's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including exhibitions that culminated out of an artist residency she participated in Leipzig, Germany. She is invested within academia, having been a faculty member at the Pakistan Institute of Fashion Design, Lahore and is a faculty member at Beaconhouse National University and Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore. Statement Anushka Rustomj's practice is influenced by the themes of art history and erasure, in reference to colonization and diasporas. Her visual vocabulary is informed by ancient Eastern imagery, texts and traditions. She utilizes the symbolism in texts and myths to form veiled visual narratives conveying ideas of creation, survival and transcendence. Through such imagery she makes cultural and historical connotations but ultimately leaving the interpretation of meaning up to the viewer. |
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