Muhammad Zeeshan "Profane Illuminations"
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Whether through hallucination, reverie, or the staging of an interior psychological theatre, Muhammad Zeeshan engages in conscious acts of self-dramatization that constitute a resistance to patriarchal norms even as they open up unprecedented domains of pleasure. Balancing precariously on the seesaw between the conventions of art and the feeling of the viewer, the artist desires simultaneously to console and shock his parent culture. Zeeshan presents objects as fetishes from a novel point of view with a sophisticated urban sensibility. The erotic art in this show arouses us in many different ways, but in particular through its focus on details and through its motifs of transformation, whether theatrical or religious.
Predator and prey coexist in a symbiotic embrace in his work, presenting a scene of unquestionable horror and violence and yet portraying a paradoxical yielding of flesh with flagrant sensuality. Zeeshan utilizes the avant-garde methods of the twentieth century ironically, making miniatures that are habitats for unusual objects and playing clever games with viewers, deliberately provoking their 'bad habit' of interpreting the work. To present the situation precisely, Zeeshan appears to be unlearning the reflexes of homo ideologicus, joyfully giving up himself to the instincts of homo ludens. Even after becoming aware of having been caught in the trap of his humour, one is induced to stay by the sheer poetic richness of his work.
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from March 06, 2008 to April 13, 2008