acrylic, crude oil, alcohol ink, and oil paint on paperNiru Ratnam
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The artwork "Pink Rise Water Lily" by Baseera Khan features a vibrant palette dominated by pink and dark tones, with abstract shapes forming a water lily motif. The composition blends bold strokes with fluid, organic forms, illustrating a fusion of beauty and obscurity. Khan’s distinctive approach in this drawing reflects an abstract expressionist style, emphasizing emotional depth. This piece is part of Khan's exploration of identity and cultural narratives, drawing from their complex, multicultural heritage to challenge monolithic structures in art and life. ...
Baseera Khan’s multidimensional, multi-layered practice extends over the mediums of sculpture, performance, collage, installation, drawing, photography, textiles and painting. They explore themes of cultural exploitation, anti-blackness and xenophobia and how these issues intersect with surveillance, capitalism and the private and public space. Khan investigates the chains of production of commodities and goods, namely oil, architecture and art. Their practice undermines the structural integrity of these monolithic subjects, revealing their inequality and hypocrisy. Khan’s own body is positioned as archive, with the artist drawing out and visualising their lived experiences, traumas and tangled histories as a queer femme Muslim American with Indian, Afghani, and East African heritage.
Written by Goldsmiths CCA ...
Niru Ratnam Gallery is a London-based contemporary art gallery founded in 2020. The gallery represents a diverse group of established, mid-career, and emerging artists whose practices often challenge dominant narratives around ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class. Working across painting, sculpture, film, installation, and photography, many of the artists move fluidly between mediums. The program frequently highlights underrepresented voices and foregrounds conceptually driven work. The gallery’s approach is shaped by founder Niru Ratnam’s background as an academic and writer. ...
