Evolve

Hassnain A is a visual artist currently based in Lahore, Pakistan. He completed his BFA in Visual Arts from the National College of Arts, Lahore in 2005 specializing in printmaking and received an Honors for his efforts. He is a printmaker by training and works mostly in mixed media oil paintings. Hassnain has exhibited his work in various galleries locally and internationally, such as at Satrang gallery Islamabad, Artescape gallery Islamabad, Taseer Art Gallery, Lahore; Khass Gallery, Islamabad; Artchowk Gallery, Karachi; Artscene Gallery, Karachi; Rothas 2, Lahore; Ejaz Art Gallery, Lahore; New York Art Fair, New York; and Basement Art Gallery, Dubai. He has worked as a faculty member in the printmaking department at the National College Of Arts, Lahore and also at Punjab University’s Department of Art & Design, Lahore. Currently, Hassnain is working as a freelance artist and running an independent printmaking studio by the name of Studio Hassnain providing other fellow printmakers a facility to do printmaking, alongside conducting workshops and residencies. He also runs a fashion photography and art direction studio by the name of Gadrang Designs.

Archival or Archives consisting of records that have been selected for permanent or long-term preservation on grounds of their enduring cultural, historical, or evidentiary value.

Such records are normally unpublished and almost always unique, unlike books or magazines of which many identical copies may exist. A feeling or an affection that one develops with such personalized paper, letters, envelopes.

We have a strange bond with these archival papers and the fact that we are slowly moving away from them.

Memories have a strange tendency of fading away with time, yet many fragments are always there lurking within the depths of our minds and heart.

At time are Memories are etched within ourselves like writing on paper, perhaps that is why paper becomes so important to us.

Hassnain’s work revolves around a feeling or an affection that one develops with such personalized paper, letters, envelopes.

We have a strange bond with these archival papers and the fact that we are slowly moving away from them.

Elements in his work represents different sets of our society and its norms.

Each image is telling us a different story/ Dastan, or lessons of life and is presented in the form of visual poetry which needs to be deciphered.