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Exhibitions

here are some exhibitions that i have recently been in that have shaped my practice and are inspiration for future works as well.

 

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Fabricated

The Newbridge Project, Newcastle upon Tyne,

July 2023

Fabricated explores our personal relationship to the historical narratives that we collectively create through an expanded sense of painting. Sajil’s paintings consider the colonial remnants of buildings in cities that have ignored relationships. An arch in a library in Karachi echoes a doorway in Oxford, and the pre-partition patterned balconies and doorways of Jhelum and Newcastle feature as backdrop in the bustle of the city. Using the visual language of ornate South Asian tradition of beautification, Sajil hopes to create an imagined world that explores the space in between, and how the gaps in narratives become stories in themselves.

Degree Show - A Fabricated Divide

Newcastle University Fine Art, Newcastle upon Tyne, June 2023

What makes a border, and how do we pass through it? Sajil considers how we build narratives from the missing, and explores our relationship with rewritten histories, tradition and distance through alluding to a world that is somewhere in between documentation and imagination.

 

  1. Partition Screen

  2. Wood and Fabric bricks

  3. Seven suspended Miniature paintings on paper, mounted on copper

  4. “Our Home”, Narrative Film

Some more

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