ART FACTS: Passing moments

Naiza Khan explored geographical spaces around her in a set time frame by juxtaposing time and space in her recent artworks in a solo exhibition titled "Set in a Moment Yet Still Moving" at Koel Gallery, Karachi. She has chosen specific locales and precise time period to capture the moments in that particular time and play with space accordingly. She seemed to be inspired by changing locations and time frame in which she set her subjects. Discovering new places and visiting same places at different times thus visiting and revisiting time and space helped her creating current series.
She kept changing the ideas with the same content showing the changes occurred as the time passed by. She wanted to show the variations and modifications occurred in the course of time. And how moment after moment the world around us is changing bit by bit. She used line and space to produce map like structures sometime having text between them to enhance the need of realizing the change in our lives. However she believed that maps are now redundant with ever changing times and surrounding world. Nobody knows what a locality will look like in a few years where they live at present. The mega structures standing everywhere changing the skyline of the city.
She touched not only the social space but domestic space also so her concept can easily be understood without ambiguity. In some of her works her view point was so obvious that it need not further explanation. Her works reflected that she think clearly without any confusion she totally focused on her theme and able to depict what she feels and experience as she became a part of that space and time.
She knew that to create an artistic and intellectual creation she has to feel that particular time and space personally and experience it. It means that she has been to those places which she depicted in her artworks and has experience those moments which she portrayed in her works. She captured the passing moments at a particular place. She presented an individual instance, as opposed to a more general theory in her works. Lines, shapes, words and colours all together made a specific surrounding that contains specific people, things and moments.
She used mainly soft colours denoted the feeling of being alive the structures and places and not living things people made these places and structures alive. Nobody likes vacant spaces devoid of life. Therefore she also talked about public spaces. It can be seen in her works titled "The Streets are Rising", "Whale", and "Land Hunger".
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