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PERPETUAL MOTION: AN EXHIBITION BY HINA FAROOQUI AND NAJIA O |
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Visual artists, Hina Farooqui and Najia Omar create metaphors while reflecting on personal struggles. The questions posed in their work also possess the answers, delicately camouflaged in symbols. Both artists are graduates of the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture and their art has been nurtured by Karachi.
Hina Farooqui, a contemporary miniaturist, says about her work, "The perpetually unstable political scenario and the intolerance, selfishness, and impatience encountered on a daily basis and the violence caused by it, have heightened my feelings of insecurity and instability. These coupled with a sense of alienation arising from my differing opinions and clashing ideologies have caused me to want to escape my surroundings. It is this constant struggle of running away that I depict in my work. In trying to find the right balance I continue searching for greener pastures".
Najia Omar, a visual artist and an enterprising object designer who works under the label of "just things", says about her art, "Our identities are ever changing and complex as there are many layers and multiple stories within stories. My interest has always been in dissecting these stories … each event, experience, feeling and thought is represented by different objects, colors and textures within my work. There are many underlying layers and symbols in each piece that one may not comprehend just upon a glance". Najia's recent work has been showcased at the Poppy Seed Gallery in Karachi, where she dealt with digital prints and mixed media, expressing intimate human pose |
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