Mode of communication: Art as a means of amicable commentary
Khan mostly uses a accumulation of materials and methods to emanate her paintings, such as beads, handle and chamak-pati. PHOTOS: COURTESY IVS GALLERY
KARACHI: Very occasionally does one come opposite artists who are embedded in their work completely. However, visible artist Saba Khan is one of them.
After completing her bachelors in excellent humanities from National College of Arts, Lahore, she trafficked to Boston University on a Fulbright grant to serve her studies though her appetite to do something petrify never wavered.
In her talk, patrician ‘Photographs are Drawings’, during a Indus Valley School Gallery on Wednesday, Khan spoke about her works, observant that her paintings of photographs became a plan all on their own. “I had a finish set of tough drives of photographs that we unequivocally didn’t know what to do with and sketch became a good event to confess my adore for a arts,” she explained. “Hence, these photographs are my drawings that have somehow culminated into a project. Initially, these drawings were personal narratives, after they incited into amicable satire.”
Khan’s work includes capturing a man’s picture in a portrayal while he looks about, anticipating to find someone to gleam his shoes, a begum sahiba lounging absolutely on a padded lounge and an picture of Aaminah Haque from a silken cover magazine, all finished regulating several techniques such as chamak-pati.
On her pierce to Boston, that she had hoped will yield a improved place for living, Khan pronounced she was supposing an eye-opener into a ‘growing racism’ and ‘narrow-mindedness’ of a West. So, she started depicting her possess story in her drawings, deliberation herself ‘a half-cooked chicken’.
In a US, she started to skip Pakistan, notwithstanding being bombarded by disastrous images on a TV about a nation going adult in flames.
“When we felt cornered, we drew images to confuse my classmates like they broke me,” she said. But she also drew images of her teacher’s pet dogs, of a rich lady vital in Boston and a apple-picking season.
Back in Lahore for a brief visit, she pronounced nostalgia swept by her, causing her to pull a picture of an aged lady in Lahore and a marriage season. In her drawings, she has experimented with many mediums, including beads and wire. Currently, according to her, her drawings are holding on a architectural hues of Lahore and Dubai.
“I unequivocally wanted to know her routine of constantly painting, that comes from a cinema she takes and considers to be drawings,” pronounced artist and curator Seher Naveed. “From aged havelis to Bahria Town, she has pronounced something on society, enlightenment and cocktail enlightenment along with paltry life, therefore, covering everything.”
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 7th, 2016.
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