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MFA 2023 Ahmed Hoor

Visual Artist

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Posted on August 11, 2021

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Background

Coming from Lahore, Pakistan I am trained as a Mughal Miniature painter. With my work I bring along rich history, technique and tradition. I have a very intimate relationship with my material because it's mostly hand made. I use handmade paper called Wasli which is a 7 layered paper pressed together with a home cooked glue called Laee. Wali has the power to absorb immense amounts of water and Laee lets the water move through the 7 layers of the paper, also providing archival value to the paper.

Kalam is a hand made brush made from squirrel hair and pigeon feather to produce the finest rendering and line work.

Pigments and made from white chalk and stored in shells

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Pigment in shells

Sept-December 2021 MFA

Research Question

The experience of recurrent bodily pain and surrendering to a disease has been a strong influence in my material-based art and research practice. Suffering from a disease compels the act of living to become a ritual as the body cleaves from the social and random tasks of life which defines self-embodiment. As the mother of a child with a physical disability caused by an inherited skin condition, my daily life has become a ritual of the tasks of nursing care as I work to reduce the excruciating pain of wounds that are themselves in a continuous process of formation and healing. My work asks: How is there beauty within the ritual of pain? The aim is to investigate the aesthetic repetitive pattern of disease, finding beauty and equilibrium in the experience of bodily pain.

My work is informed by biological processes, namely the cell-packing geometry which divides and splits in predictable patterns and Islamic Mughal patterns who have the quality of infinity. Islamic Mughal patterns and body disease/mutations have a strong lineage and layering both of them together have become a strong part of my work during my MFA program.

Gouache and tea wash on Wasli 2021 18inch by 18inch

Gouache on wasli 2021 24 inch by 18inch

Gouache and tea wash on wasli 2021 18inch by 24inch

FINAL CRITIQUE 2021 DEC

PROGRESS

Panels in progress for installation , Gouache on tracing sheets

Final installation with projection

Jan-Feb 2022

Gouache and tea wash on Wasli, 24inch by 27inch

Gouache and tea wash on Wasli, 18inch by 14inch

Gouache and tea wash on Wasli, 18inch by 14inch

Gouache on Wasli, 18inch by 14inch

Gouache and tea wash on wasli, 18inch by 14inch

Gouache and tea wash on Wasli, 18inch by 14 inch

Gouache and tea wash on Wasli, 18inch by 14 inch

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