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
Sadqain
Biography & General Practice
Sadqain is an art practitioner, educator, and designer based in Lahore, Pakistan. He completed his BFA in graphic design from GC University, Faisalabad, in 2012 and then went on to pursue another BFA from the National College of Arts, Lahore, from where he graduated summa cum laude in 2016. In his studio practice, Sadqain explores the themes of the body, shame, sense of impurity, and memory. He is intrigued by how these elements are interwoven within the social, religious, and cultural contexts and the spaces he lives in. His work has been exhibited locally at various institutions. Sadqain had his first solo exhibition at Alhamra Art Gallery, Lahore, in 2018. Sadqain has also worked with the Commissioner’s Office on the Dharampura Underpass Public Art Project in Lahore. Beyond exhibiting extensively across Pakistan, he has taught at various established art education institutes, including Beaconhouse National University, Lahore; the Institute of Art and Culture, Lahore; and his alma mater, the National College of Arts, Lahore.
His work revolves around the human body and its existence. His intent is to explore the human form with regards to the negative and positive spaces formed through touch and within the human body. He is interested in three-dimensionality, materiality, and sculpture itself as a medium. He engages viewers on a sensitive and emotional level through silent, subtle, and delicate imagery. The work exudes pathos, likely influenced by his experience of his surroundings. He employs a variety of materials and techniques, often starting with a life cast of a human body or body part in plaster, which then evolves into other materials depending on the needs of the piece.
Site- Specific Project Description
For Lahore Biennale's Collateral Event, I want to explore the tensions that emerge out of the contact between the public and the private, the body and dirt, human pollution and the ecology. Exhibiting at the Shahi Hammam, a relic of a time where the divide between the "public" and "private" had alternative connotations, where the relationship between the human body and nature was largely untainted and climate change was non-existent, my two works bring to surface the many oscillations between the these themes.
One is a video of a nala with overflowing sewage water, projected on the walls of the shahi hammam, forcing two contrasting images, one of purity and grandeur and the other of urban filth and decay to be read alongside one another
Site- Specific Project Description
For Lahore Biennale's Collateral Event, I want to explore the tensions that emerge out of the contact between the public and the private, the body and dirt, human pollution and the ecology. Exhibiting at the Shahi Hammam, a relic of a time where the divide between the "public" and "private" had alternative connotations, where the relationship between the human body and nature was largely untainted and climate change was non-existent, my two works bring to surface the many oscillations between the these themes.
One is a video of a nala with overflowing sewage water, projected on the walls of the shahi hammam, forcing two contrasting images, one of purity and grandeur and the other of urban filth and decay to be read alongside one another
The second is an installation of a tub with water with frothing bubbles, acting as a microcosm of a similar nala. This installation is rooted in my experience of my city, Faisalabad which has suffered severe ecological damage due to constant industrialization. Again, themes of decay, loss, dirt and discomfort run through the work.
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