These artists highlight social issues and personal memories through their artwork
An exhibition featuring social malaise and personal memories opened at the Nomad Gallery on Saturday.
Two young artists – Mohsin Shafi and Saadia Hussain – exhibited their works at No Man’s Land. Their pieces were a combination of mixed media, photography, text, painting and collages that capture fleeting imagery from history, societal conflicts and the inner self.
The exhibition generates nostalgic narratives in both the personal and the collective imagination.
The curator of the exhibition and Nomad Gallery’s director Nageen Hyat said: “Intrinsically linked, the forms in the both artists’ work aim to create an interface between seemingly divergent understanding of assimilation and culture, reflecting a very personal ideology as well as a fluid sense of self, moving between text and image, the sacred, the mundane, and the profane.”
Mr Shafi’s work is a dialogue on social issues between the art and the viewer. With a master’s from the National College of Arts in Lahore, he has practiced with mixed mediums, such as collages, installations, prints and photography, using multiple images with text in the background in hand-cut paper in synthetic frames.
In his ‘Intermission’ and ‘Kaleidoscope’ series, Mr Shafi subtly highlights the marginalisation and persecution of vulnerable segments of society, such as women, religious minorities and transgender people.