Checkmate!

Mahbub Jokhio

Checkmate!, 201645.72 x 55.88cmSign in to view price
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Material
archival print on photographic paper
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This black-and-white photograph depicts two men engaged in a game of chess in what appears to be an art gallery or museum setting. The composition is centered, with the two men sitting at a table facing each other, deep in concentration. The background features exhibition walls and lighting, suggesting the piece is part of a larger artistic or cultural context. The stark contrasts and monochromatic tones give the image a timeless, pensive quality, inviting the viewer to consider the intellectual and strategic nature of the game being played. The work seems to explore the intersection of art, intellect, and human interaction. ...

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Mahbub Jokhio
Artist
Mahbub Jokhio
B.1992, Pakistani

Pakistani artist Mehbub Jokhio’s work discusses and decodes the very nature of images, specifically the way they are perceived and interpreted. Perhaps influenced by Jean Baudrillard’s conception of simulacra and simulation, Jokhio is interested in the image’s claim to objectivity, the photograph’s assertion of truth and verisimilitude, and how, when reality and fiction are blurred, the image becomes loaded with power. He is interested in the relationship between the medium and the viewer, and the journey that the image and its message takes in order to reach its prosumer. Jokhio’s practice – which is not consigned to one medium and bleeds across video, collage and performative photography – incorporates dark humour, irony and self-referentiality, and turns its attention to subject matters spanning religion, history, death, violence and love. ...

Mahbub Jokhio: Artworks
Nobody writes to Islam chacha!
Mahbub Jokhio
Nobody writes to Islam chacha!, 2016
101.6 x 167.64cm
Portrait of an old woman at the edge of a Graveyard
Mahbub Jokhio
Portrait of an old woman at the edge of a Graveyard, 2016
101.6 x 167.64cm
Checkmate!
Mahbub Jokhio
Checkmate!, 2016
45.72 x 55.88cm
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