Innovation and invention allows artists to evolve. Today's young artists experiments with mediums and execution of their work to make it more expressive. The viewers peek inside the minds of young emerging artists while going through the collection of paintings, photography and drawings in a group show displayed at Ahmed Pervaiz Art Gallery, Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi. As the exhibition was titled "The Human Condition" each of the five artists who are fresh graduates from Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi explored what it is to be human.
The artists were greatly interested and curious about various issues surrounding our society. Consisting many different elements and socially inclusive themes they executed their thoughts through detailed compositions. Their art pieces showed abstract ideas in different geometric shapes, forms, lines, figures and images. In some of the paintings strange forms emerged from the regular shapes and then disappear somewhere between other forms.
The bright and lively colour was one of the main characteristics of the paintings. The experiments help artists expressing their feelings on canvas and thus document their perceptions about human life in present time. Their paintings explored life, using vibrant tones and simple subjects with a unique point of view. The vibrant colours style of paintings by the artists revealed an exciting experience of an unknown feeling while monochrome artworks reflected calmness and steadiness. The refreshing and broad background of the paintings gave the feeling of depth and wideness. Artists infused the feelings of inner enlightenment with deep hues of red, green, yellow and blue.
Shiza Hai used people's observations about their surrounding which create perceptions about certain issues as a subject of her paintings. She particularly talked about the concept of people regarding death. People although know that one day they have to die but they don't want to accept this fact and crave for permanent belonging which will be left behind after death but still people live their lives in collecting such things that one day become useless for them when they meet their end.
On the other hand Anousha Hassan discussed the impact of one's experience related to certain issue as the experience help a person in understanding the society, than world and universe. Therefore every person has his/her own experience and understanding of a single issue and hence reality varies from person to person. So the experience makes a person unique and also he/she has a different perception.
The monochromic artworks by Dania Shah Khan explored the decaying world around us which we ignore by indulging in colours of the society. Such people do not want to face reality and they think by neglecting they will not be affected by this decay and disease spreading all over around them.
Raahima Junaid's artworks acted as a therapy for her to overcome anxiety and pain which she endured daily while losing things or forgetting something. Her mind was not clear and therefore she portrayed murky images to resist that stage of being real and surreal.
Nimrah Nadeem seemed to be examining emotional feelings attached to our memories. She believed that memory can be both resilient and unreliable. Her paintings depicted how memory becomes vague after certain time period and people alter remembered realities in convenience.