Ethereal Light: The Art of Fluid Expression
The material comes alive on the canvas through the play of light, delicately breaking and traveling through each form and wave crafted by this refined artist. Abstract paintings, often in soft whites or iridescent hues, offer a tactile experience where light takes center stage. As time passes, light transforms the artwork, inviting viewers to witness its shifting essence.
These minimalist pieces create a seamless flow within a space, bringing calm, freedom, and serenity. Acting as windows to an ethereal realm, the light dances across textures, illuminating every corner with its radiant glow. They effortlessly brighten any environment, offering a meditative experience that touches the soul and transforms the surroundings. The interplay of color, form, and light invites a personal dialogue between the artwork and the observer, making each encounter a unique journey.
Ethereal Light: The Art of Fluid Expression
The material comes alive on the canvas through the play of light, delicately breaking and traveling through each form and wave crafted by this refined artist. Abstract paintings, often in soft whites or iridescent hues, offer a tactile experience where light takes center stage. As time passes, light transforms the artwork, inviting viewers to witness its shifting essence.
These minimalist pieces create a seamless flow within a space, bringing calm, freedom, and serenity. Acting as windows to an ethereal realm, the light dances across textures, illuminating every corner with its radiant glow. They effortlessly brighten any environment, offering a meditative experience that touches the soul and transforms the surroundings. The interplay of color, form, and light invites a personal dialogue between the artwork and the observer, making each encounter a unique journey.
Meet The Artist
Marium Agha
Biography & General Practice
Marium Agha (b, Karachi, Pakistan) is a distinguished contemporary artist whose work critically engages with the historical narrative of love through the lens of popular culture. Agha holds a BFA from the Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture (2006) and a master's in fine art from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (2009), complemented by a short course in Curating Contemporary Art from Chelsea School of Art and Design. Her innovative practice encompasses tapestries, drawings, and installations, utilizing thread, fabric, and found imagery to challenge and deconstruct ideologies surrounding identity and representation in a globalized context. Agha’s significant exhibitions include solo shows like "Forever, they said..." at Antidote Gallery, Dubai (2021), and "An Ephemeral Culture of Love" at Taseer Art Gallery, Lahore (2019), as well as notable group exhibitions across Pakistan, India, and New York. She has been recognized with nominations for the Abraaj Capital Art Prize (2012-2013) and the Sovereign Art Prize (2021), winning the public vote prize for the latter in 2022. Through her work, Agha invites viewers to reflect on the complexities of love and desire, continually rewriting narratives within her artistic explorations.
Delayed Echoes
Like threads entwined, a tale untold, of love unrequited, a heart grown cold. A handkerchief's whisper, a silent plea, For echoes of longing, eternally.
In every stitch, a memory's trace, A love deferred, a lost embrace. A fragile vessel, holding dreams untold, A story of yearning, centuries old. Beneath the surface, a world unseen, Of longing and loss, a bittersweet scene. A tapestry woven, of joy and pain, A heart's reflection, a soulful strain. In every thread, a prayer ascends, for love's return, where hope transcends. A journey of patience, a test of faith, A love eternal, beyond the grave
Site- Specific Project Description
In the context of the exhibition set within the historic Shahi Hammam, my work, Delayed Echoes, forms a delicate dialogue with the overarching theme of preservation and destruction. The handkerchiefs I create, steeped in the tradition of love tokens, speak to the fragility of human emotions—mirroring the fragile state of our ecosystem as highlighted in the curatorial note. Just as the environment teeters on the edge between survival and degradation, the intricate threads in each handkerchief represent the tenuous connections between people, places, and time.
The Shahi Hammam, a site of historical preservation, embodies both the splendor of the past and the looming uncertainty of the future, providing a poignant backdrop to this conversation. My handkerchiefs, woven with narratives of unrequited love, delayed gratification, and emotional transience, echo this sense of impermanence and loss.
Site- Specific Project Description
In the context of the exhibition set within the historic Shahi Hammam, my work, Delayed Echoes, forms a delicate dialogue with the overarching theme of preservation and destruction. The handkerchiefs I create, steeped in the tradition of love tokens, speak to the fragility of human emotions—mirroring the fragile state of our ecosystem as highlighted in the curatorial note. Just as the environment teeters on the edge between survival and degradation, the intricate threads in each handkerchief represent the tenuous connections between people, places, and time.
The Shahi Hammam, a site of historical preservation, embodies both the splendor of the past and the looming uncertainty of the future, providing a poignant backdrop to this conversation. My handkerchiefs, woven with narratives of unrequited love, delayed gratification, and emotional transience, echo this sense of impermanence and loss.
The painstaking process of embroidery mirrors the slow erosion of natural and cultural heritage, where every stitch can be seen as an attempt to hold on to what may inevitably be lost if we do not act.
The intimate scale of each handkerchief is in stark contrast to the larger environmental and societal crises presented in the exhibition—consumerism, migration, and urbanization. Yet, through this contrast, the work reminds us that the small, personal acts of care and connection are often where preservation begins. As the Shahi Hammam stands as a reminder of what is at stake, so too do my handkerchiefs serve as quiet, tactile witnesses to the delicate balance between love and loss, and between the world we cherish and the one we risk losing.
ArtSoch was launched in 2020; since then, the gallery has become a prominent destination for contemporary art from Pakistan. We consistently open exhibitions, featuring a mix of regional and global academic artists from the South Asian diaspora, working in diverse media; whose practices are dynamic in style , rigorously investigated and grasp gist of our time.
OPENING
ADDRESS
Event: Friday, 4 Oct 24
5:00 Pm to 9:00 Pm
Shahi Hamam, Dehli Gate
Walled City Lahore
OPENING
Event: Friday, 4 Oct 24
5:00 Pm to 9:00 Pm
ADDRESS
Shahi Hamam, Dehli Gate
Walled City Lahore