Belonging to Each Other
Exhibition essay for Misbah Ahmad
Xpace Cultural Centre, 2021
Belonging to Each Other exercises art’s capacity to care for the viewer by offering a liberation from the ills of structural oppression. Ahmed’s mural, mythological in its rendering of the homeland, is still rooted in truth. When we establish ourselves to be in service to our communities, our friends, the networks that call for support, then we subsequently empathize with our environment in a meaningful way that sustains our responsibility to this land. The participatory nature of experiencing the medium — the artwork — is a blooming of exchange between viewer and artist, you and me.
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