“Not only is art an intellectual exercise, it is an extremely emotional exercise whether you’re talking about art born from critical thinking or art as a purely popular cultural form of entertainment or communication,” he says. I tend not to enter the space with too much playing on my mind other than the grammar of the medium. “One of them has gone missing and the other two are on a quest to search for her. In that, I know it’s there because I know it has something to do with resonance and juxtaposition of image, which is not necessarily static.. For me the abstract is something that is intangible in a way or rather it’s tactile but intangible. Everybody is searching for the truth. an image which is effervescent like cinema, which is light playing on your eye.”Husain, who began as a figurative artist, says he has always sought abstraction. I’ve always enjoyed surprising myself.A common thread of exile, displacement and search of homeland runs through Dubai-based artist and filmmaker Owais Husain’s works.Talking about his relationship with the city, Husain says he always felt the need to come back. They’re also the vehicle of movement, whether it is migration, travel or displacement. Definition is the key word. Their sense of loss is real, but we don’t know how real their history is. We don’t know whether she was real or not, whether she was a figment of imagination, whether she’s just a myth but their quest is real. (It is) the whole effect Bombay had on me.‘You Are Forever’ will be on display on Platform 8 of Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus on October 22-23 from 10 am to 5 pm.. I’ve explored it through experimenting with music and sound.Elaborating on his approach towards creating art and how he pushes the boundaries within various mediums, Husain says, “I’ve never worked with a formula. So, you can feel it to a certain extent in certain moments.. This is something relatable to the Indian diaspora. It also made me seek other metropolises in a similar vein in other parts of the world,” he says. The visually arresting piece comprises his mesmerising short film ‘You Are Forever’, which is projected onto a curious screen — a pile of chrome-glazed aluminium trunks that are stacked in a V formation. Explaining the symbolism of trunks, the multi-media artist says, “They are a storehouse of memories that are forgotten or cherished. The only witness is the sky, which is benign but in its silence eloquent Their quest takes them through these cities and metropolises. I submit myself completely to its laws and then I can meditate on thoughts which come in on various levels.”Though he maintains that art cannot save lives, Husain firmly believes that it opens windows.”Throwing light on the underlying mythology of the film, an art form he considers liberating, Husain says that the narrative of the video centres on three rivers that are reincarnated as three sisters. When this correspondent caught up with the multifaceted artist last week at the JJ School of Arts — where the unique artwork was on display, among others — for a tête-a-tête, he said the genesis of the project was a piece of poetry of the same name. “Abstraction is something that is undefined in a common linguistic sense.. His first installation in the city of China Colorful Bluetooth Audio lamp lamp his birth, which is being displayed as part of the seventh edition of contemporary art organisation ArtOxygen’s public art festival ‘[en]counters’, is no different. that truth I find deeply embedded in abstraction.’
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