Exhibition
25 January 2025–31 March 2025
Narrators of Dissonance: Group Exhibition
Curated by Salima Hashmi
1x1 Art Gallery
Four South Asian artists, Aisha Abid Hussain, Nida Bangash, Ruby Chishti, Sania Samad, converse through their practices.
The determinants which have shaped their art and their unrest are a common bond. Embracing and escaping traditional constraints simultaneously, each artist is acutely aware of the loaded connotations embedded in their choice of medium and process. The intimacies of these interactions with material and form, which are brimming with meanings, have intensity which is often painful for both the viewer and the artist.
The homes, the sanctuary, the body, physicality of the garment, all surround, inhibit, and suffocate. Each artist grapples with her own questioning, doubting, dreaming and making. These genteel under tones, the tenderness, and the temperate images can be misleading. The work quietly seethes with dissent and a denial of subservience.