Text: Marjorie Hussain
Photographs
“My
work addresses the issues of form and the relationship between line, shape and
colour. I am interested in mark making and its relationship with negative
space, and exploring media (traditional and three-dimensional) to create the
effect of an intervention into a picturesque world. Through my work, I explore
fundamental questions. What does it mean to be human? What is an object? What
is a creature? And ultimately how do we define and interpret our world.
Recurring themes in my work suggest location, place, gender, identity, and
nationally – through direct or subtle references to memory, association and
anthropomorphic forms. The distinction between drawing, painting-into-sculpture
and sculptural installations are blurred, as objects transfigure one into
another, installed in everyday settings to create a human interaction with
transformed objects”. (Soraya
Sikandar, 2013)
Soraya
Sikander is a young artist with an extensive experience of art practice to her
credit. She initially completed one year at the Indus Valley School of Art and
Architecture Karachi, before joining Beacon House National University, Lahore.
After
graduating in 2008 her excitement with art and the desire to explore ways to
express her inner feelings led her to practice a variety of media including,
painting, woodblock carving, silkscreen prints and video. She is a young artist
in unusual circumstances as part owner and curator of the family run Unicorn
Gallery. Karachi and the responsibilities involved. Her time is divided between
her practicing her art and planning various programmes to be mounted at the
gallery, including lectures, book launches and art festivals as well as
exhibitions.
