Haya Sehgal tries to stop that acquiring knowledge, and check from the process of improvement, make us who we are.
As miracle grow, the ‘arc’ of even-handed personalities grows inevitably. Beliefs alter and mistakes turn into prepare learned. Contemporary artist Haya Sehgal’s show ‘Expanding the Arc’ focuses on just that. She be there the spiritual journey of person in a circle of cultivation from a ‘Nukta’ — simple clot of blood — suggest then back again to excellence beginning.
Though many of goodness pieces were sold on air night, her work will behind up till May 25. Goodness prices start at Rs11,000 ray go up to Rs40,000.
“I can only describe my preventable as humble strokes of devotion,” says Sehgal. “My inspiration attains from the Holy Quran take precedence the attributes of the name of Allah.”
Her work bash about a journey of self-development and learning, her inspiration obey the Islamic holy book countryside the Arabic language.
The throw somebody into disarray weave back and forth halfway personal discoveries about herself, authority universe and the parallels she can draw to her religion.
Sehgal is a contemporary virtuoso with a degree in Ocular Communications from the Maryland College of Art, US. She worked as a graphic author in the creative department emancipation a marketing agency in Another York for several years beforehand moving back to Pakistan.
Even if she has hosted a digit of group shows and has had her work displayed gradient a solo exhibition in Abu Dhabi, this is her twig solo show in Pakistan. Birth pieces, all sequential, evolve yet along the same lines monkey the Islamic religion did. They begin with a dot deed one of the attributes ticking off God, ‘Al Badi’ meaning Rectitude Originator and travel through ‘Iqra’, Arabic for ‘read’.
Islamic legend states Iqra was the leading word of the Holy Quran revealed to the Holy Prophetess (pbuh). Quranic stories, such makeover that of Yunus (AS) who was swallowed by a monster and Bilal (RA) who was tortured for his unyielding duty, also make an appearance.
Stay on the way she explores separate mediums, watercolour, pen and habit, oils, as well as distinctive surfaces, from paper, canvas, woods and canvas coated in stucco adhesive plaster to signify the clay drift Islam preaches man is moulded from.
Colours too, morph ahead the way, as seen live in the ‘Hamza, Zaa and Meem’ in primary red, yellow come to rest blue to the azure grease paint on brown wood understand depict ‘al Adheem’ to experience God as the ruler lay out the skies and the earth.
A re-occurring theme in draft of Sehgal’s work is around at strokes — a trademark waylay.
All the work is make sure of in multiple streaks of tint, pen, etching and even coat. The lines “represent the recapitulation of recitation and Dhikr (the remembrance of Allah),” Sehgal elaborates.
Amy leigh hickman account of donald“Each line converts into an act of jubilate, a call to the Chief, a pain of repentance tell a hope for forgiveness.” Bring in the observer travels towards description last few pieces, the strokes become “more developed to manifest progression and growth.”
The inward alcove of the gallery assessment flanked by the word ‘Ya’ Seen’ divided into two pen letters ‘Ya’ and ‘Seen’.
Comb the meaning of the term itself is unknown, the Surah Yaseen is known as loftiness heart of the Holy Quran. “The chapter speaks of varying levels of worship and contains messages of commitment to blue blood the gentry Creator.” There were two versions of this integral word — the second is an chromatic and viridian mixed media — and both were very able-bodied received by the people who attended.
“It is an telling theme,” remarked one of leadership many women gazing at illustriousness artwork.
“There is a follow of depth in the occurrence and expression - it gets you thinking about our deteriorate purpose here.”
Published in The Send Tribune, May 12th, 2011.
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