Saad Qureshi
(26 years old. Born in United Kingdom. Lives in: Oxford)
Oxford Brookes
My work is a dissection and exploration of cultural identity issues, linking them with the psychology of visual perception and focusing on the experience of the Asian migrant, who is subject to the twin processes of emigration and immigration. I will continue this work on migration as part of cultural identity with a focus on ‘distorted’ perception/psychology, perhaps pairing/comparing British Asian psychology wi ...[more]
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Work of art I would like to make
flesh, blood and bone,
we are in the world
and of the world,
and this is sanity.
My work will focus on the distorted perception that leads to catastrophe. It will be a reminder of some of the political, social and spiritual failures of the 20th Century – failures that led to the Holocaust; to the Stalinist terror; to two World Wars and innumerable armed conflicts; and to the endless violation of human rights. I shall target the twisted thinking that places a higher value on “ideals†and belief systems than on human life and happiness. My work will juxtapose and compare past failures with contemporary failures in am attempt to alert the audience to the dangers and challenges of the next 25 years. We live in a multi-cultural world where a “modus vivendi†must be found.
The work will be an installation combining video, paintings, photographs and sculptural emblems, providing focused documentation of the selected areas. An essential element of the work will be the use and manipulation of images from the black and white film “The Cabinet of Dr Caligariâ€, a visual master piece on distorted perception. These will function as sensitising images suggesting visual and psychological connections between the various elements of the work. To recognise the appalling “craziness†of distorted perception is the first stage in combating it. A provisional title for the work is “Will yesterday become tomorrow?"
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My Artworks (6)
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