A keen observer of the interplay of cultural and political factors, Saba has chosen a multiplicity of media to tackle subjects ranging from power relations, personal experiences, communal conflict to gender politics, human rights and philosophy.
She strives to capture the complexity of her world by channeling it through the more enigmatic lenses which culminate at this exhibition in the prestigious Lalit Kala Akademi Foyer Gallery, from December 13 to 19.
The video Saba Hasan Reads Her Poems was shown in Barcelona as part of a performance festival
last month and comprises 3 of her verses, Rehearsal for a Poem written in Salzburg, The Two of Us as a protest against the criminalization of homosexuality in India and Rain on the experience of letting go of consciousness.
The poems were written in the last four years and concern themselves with racial profiling, caste and gender oppression, love, conflict as in war/violence and hope. Saba uses several Urdu expressions in these English verses, which form old literary conventions and to her familiar intimate sounds and meanings. One such is the use of her own name as the poets have always done in ghazals.
The second work is a text installation, which brings into focus women’s rights through Mahashweta Devi’s text in Urdu, translated and scripted by Tahera Hasan, Saba’s mother. It addresses her personal politics and refers to the inner compulsion and responsibility of each of us to question oppressive social norms and move ahead towards change and, walking a new road. This show is a milestone in Saba’s practice as it shows her deft and sensitive handling of all her new media materials like video and text installation bringing a deeper understanding in combination with her consistent use of text and sound in two languages, Urdu and English.
Saba Hasan is a highly reputed New Delhi artist with a body of work consisting of paintings, book sculptures, photographs, videos and sound presented since 1996. She has been awarded international fellowships from Syracuse University, New York, The French Cultural Ministry, Paris, the George Keyt Art Foundation, Colombo 2002, the Oscar Kokoschka Academy in Austria, 2010 and the Raza National Award for Painting in 2005.
The versatile artist also exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2013 as part of the Imago Mundi Foundation Collection of mixed media paintings, among other major international shows in Florence, Paris, Salzburg, Milan, Singapore, Colombo, New York and Lisbon. Her video Haqeeqat/Truth was recently nominated for the Celeste Art Prize 2014 and her Walking in Deer Park photographs won Honorable mention at the Moscow Foto Awards 2014.
Where: Lalit Kala Akademi Foyer Gallery, Rabindra Bhawan
When : December 13-19
Time : 11am to 7 pm
She strives to capture the complexity of her world by channeling it through the more enigmatic lenses which culminate at this exhibition in the prestigious Lalit Kala Akademi Foyer Gallery, from December 13 to 19.
The video Saba Hasan Reads Her Poems was shown in Barcelona as part of a performance festival
last month and comprises 3 of her verses, Rehearsal for a Poem written in Salzburg, The Two of Us as a protest against the criminalization of homosexuality in India and Rain on the experience of letting go of consciousness.
The poems were written in the last four years and concern themselves with racial profiling, caste and gender oppression, love, conflict as in war/violence and hope. Saba uses several Urdu expressions in these English verses, which form old literary conventions and to her familiar intimate sounds and meanings. One such is the use of her own name as the poets have always done in ghazals.
The second work is a text installation, which brings into focus women’s rights through Mahashweta Devi’s text in Urdu, translated and scripted by Tahera Hasan, Saba’s mother. It addresses her personal politics and refers to the inner compulsion and responsibility of each of us to question oppressive social norms and move ahead towards change and, walking a new road. This show is a milestone in Saba’s practice as it shows her deft and sensitive handling of all her new media materials like video and text installation bringing a deeper understanding in combination with her consistent use of text and sound in two languages, Urdu and English.
Saba Hasan is a highly reputed New Delhi artist with a body of work consisting of paintings, book sculptures, photographs, videos and sound presented since 1996. She has been awarded international fellowships from Syracuse University, New York, The French Cultural Ministry, Paris, the George Keyt Art Foundation, Colombo 2002, the Oscar Kokoschka Academy in Austria, 2010 and the Raza National Award for Painting in 2005.
The versatile artist also exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2013 as part of the Imago Mundi Foundation Collection of mixed media paintings, among other major international shows in Florence, Paris, Salzburg, Milan, Singapore, Colombo, New York and Lisbon. Her video Haqeeqat/Truth was recently nominated for the Celeste Art Prize 2014 and her Walking in Deer Park photographs won Honorable mention at the Moscow Foto Awards 2014.
Where: Lalit Kala Akademi Foyer Gallery, Rabindra Bhawan
When : December 13-19
Time : 11am to 7 pm