1X1 is pleased to announce the new edition of oneWall with a collection of works by Faiza Butt.
28 May - 13 June 2019
Closed for Eid Al Fitr
11 am - 5.00 pm - during Ramadan
11 am - 7 pm - post Eid AL Fitr
Unit 10, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai |
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Icon-2, 2017, Ink on polyster film, 102 x 72 cm
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Faiza Butt’s work, steeped with meaning and significance, utilizes an elaborate and intricate drawing process, obsessively crafted with passion and rigour, to produce surfaces that hover somewhere between a photograph and embroidery. Although a trained Slade artist and living in London, Butt's Pakistani roots are clearly evident in her work as she brings to our attention various social, gender and political issues faced by a young Pakistani.
Faiza’s ceramic bowl installations question gender and how its ideals are promoted, with each peace demanding a deeper examination to unveil the layer of tragedy amongst the comfort. These depictions range from a Disney princess kissing a bird in her utmost representation of femininity while surrounded by branded goods that represent Western affluence and the good life, to a set of sports shoes set against a platter of scallops that creates visual tension and evokes a response. The running theme of layering the desirable with the undesirable continues through her work with ceramics, with each reflecting gender, the human condition and conflicts of territory. Each of these porcelain pieces is handmade, inlaid with marbled Terrazzo pieces and then painted with underglazes.
At the same time, her series of paperwork discuss the human face as a landscape of psychological inquiry, utilizing the juxtaposition of contrasting imagery yet again through images of refugee children drawn in ornate detail set against varied objects such as bottles of bleach and commercial objects as a commentary on the world and it's duality. Each of these is painstakingly crafted, using a near obsessive technique of tiny dots using Indian ink pens that she developed by mixing the ‘Purdhkat’ rendering method of Indo-Persian miniatures with pixels of a photograph. The drawing is developed on polyester film coated with specially mixed gold pigment emulsion.
Born in 1973, Faiza Butt trained at the NCA in Lahore and the Slade School of Art in London, with her work being shown at various museums and included in several publications.
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