SEA Conversations - Drawing Worlds #2 - Literal and Metaphorical Patterns by Afra Shafiq

SEA CONVERSATIONS

MONSOON 2024-25
DRAWING WORLDS

The Monsoon 2024 SEA Conversations looks at, and looks to various practices of drawing - here an expanded visual practice that gets produced through not only modes of seeing and observing, but also reading, listening, writing, talking - those that aid the process of critical interrogation and interpretation, that engage with the tactile and palpable - bodies and measures and quantifiable entities, as well as intangible aspects like social relationships, sensorial experiences, memories and meaning, temporalities and active imagination. These practices are set up as various horizons on the contemporary drawing landscape. The conversation with them is meant to articulate for us new questions and methods of seeing and drawing, in turn, newer forms of engagement towards a fresher politics of participation with our visual worlds.

session 2
Literal and Metaphorical Patterns

by Afra Shafiq

Expanding the idea of drawing, to also look at the act of drawing from, this talk will think about how tracing patterns in existing material and the study of lines, grids, motifs and repetition can lead to newer and endlessly emergent ways of meaning making.

about

Afrah Shafiq is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Goa, India. Her work takes hybrid forms that bring together text, sound, animation, code, and sculpture to create interactive, sometimes simulated atmospheres to experience and unlearn. She often seeks ways to retain the tactile within the digital and the poetry within technology. Afrah’s work has been included in the Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh, 2023; Video Art Pavilion at the Asian Art Biennale, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, 2022; Lahore Biennial (LB02), Lahore Pakistan; 2019; Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India, 2018, WorldBuilding: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist At Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf and Centre Pompidou-Metz; “Very Small Feelings” at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, among other exhibitions in India and globally.

This is an online lecture series, supported by the Urban Centre Mumbai. It is free and open to everyone across the world.