This artwork features a vibrant and geometric composition. The dominant colors are shades of blue, yellow, and red, arranged in a repeating checkerboard pattern. The overall style is clean and minimalist, with the squares meticulously laid out in a grid-like structure. This visually striking work showcases the artist's emphasis on the interplay of colors, shapes, and patterns to create a sense of optical illusion and visual rhythm. The repetitive nature of the design suggests an exploration of themes such as order, symmetry, and the relationship between positive and negative space. ...
Rana Begum plays with colour, geometry and the capabilities of light. Although she often employs hard, industrial materials such as concrete, steel and aluminium, Begum’s works often feel unshackled and weightless, imbuing light with a solid materiality. Hers is a practice concerned with exploring changing perceptions caused by altering perspectives: the transience with which light falls onto objects, constantly casting fugitive shadows that hold different personas, the inconsistency with which colours refract light, and how light can effectively mix and bleed colours into one another. Begum’s artworks are influenced by minimalism and constructivism, specifically artists like Anni Albers and Agnes Martin, as well as memories of the Islamic architecture of her homeland. ...
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