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Waking Dream ZAAM ARIF
January 30 @ 6:00 pm - March 1 @ 8:00 pm
Houston-based Pakistani artist Zaam Arif presents a suite of large- and small-scale oil paintings for the first time in India. His cinematic compositions feature personable protagonists who are ridden with a kind of existential ennui, often posited among surrealistic scenes of exterior-spliced interior spaces.
Vadehra Art Gallery is pleased to present an exciting first solo exhibition in India by young Pakistani-American artist Zaam Arif titled Waking Dream. The show features a comprehensive suite of 12 small and large-scale oil paintings, offering a rich evocation of Arif’s conceptual interests in mirroring interiority as profound mental states as well as interstitial physical spaces – often in provocations of reality that are as endearing as they are existential. Painting in traditions of the modern masters then pared out within cinematic mise-en-scenes, Arif discourses between Western influences of culture, literature and philosophy and the South Asian cultural context.
Investigating the human experience is at the heart of Arif’s art practice. He approaches the narrative moment as a layered construct in which the existence of one’s present self is always already connected to its past memories and future possibilities, dissolving machinations of time for the fluency of the consciousness instead. His powerful figurations are amalgamations drawn from familiarity and strangeness, often an autobiographical imbuing of close family members wherein intimacy and disassociation are both greatly exaggerated. Arif’s expressionistic palette in darker, bluish hues strengthens his revisitation of the sea as a visual
symbol of the flow of life, further submitting his scenes to a moody and contemplative atmosphere. Though it appears as if his protagonists are attempting to resolve some immediate circumstances, they tend to be captured in stillness and quietude – a feigned state of rest, for they are secretly immersed within their own selves. For Arif, identity is informed by an intermingling of memory and presence whose connections can only be revealed through deep introspection. A human being’s emotional voyage is responsive and visceral, much like the act of dreaming that possesses the reflective quality of mirrors as much as the predictive quality of self-fulfilling actions.
Date & Time: 30 January, to 1 March 2024 6 – 8 pm
Venue: Vadehra Art Gallery
D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi
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