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Welcome to the Official Youtube Channel of Nauha Khuwan Syed Muhammad Ali Kazim. Ali Kazim is a shia Pakstani Noha, Naat, Manqabat reciter and Poet.
Feb 7, 2022 · As the University of Oxford’s first South Asian artist-in-residence, Ali Kazim confronts a complex post-colonial narrative. The Pakistani native has been slowly extricating himself from Western oil-on-canvas techniques, and his new solo show in UK's Ashmolean Museum is a result of his investigation into the art history of the Indus Delta.
Ali Kazim: Suspended in Time will show 23 works including new pieces made from 2019-21, alongside objects from the Ashmolean’s collections which have inspired Kazim’s work. The exhibition will be the culmination of his time as Oxford University’s first South Asian Artist-in-Residence.
Ali Kazim was born in Pattoki, Pakistan in 1979. He received his BFA from the National College of Arts, Lahore, in 2002 and an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London, in 2011. Kazim had his first solo exhibition in Lahore in 2004, and further solo presentations in London and New York in 2006. Kazim creates layered, textured watercolours ...
- Early Portraits
- Religion and Spirituality
- 'Ruins' Series
- Woman of Faith/Man of Faith
- Impermanent Installations
Kazim's early sketches inspired by the Priest King narrate lives from the Indus Valley Civilisation, showing figures adorned with symbolic objects such as prayer caps and parrots. A series of watercolour portraits that borrowed techniques from the Bengal watercolourists emerged as a result, including works such as Mian Mithu (Man with parrot)(2006)...
Set against empty backdrops devoid of signifiers, Kazim's portraits often appear suspended in time. Subjects are sharpened just as they are placed in a timeless setting that evokes spiritual transcendence. In Untitled (man of faith series)(2019), the figure not only looks away from viewers, as do the majority of Kazim's portraits, but turns its bac...
During his studies in London, Kazim spent time looking at terracotta works from the Indus region and Mesopotamia. While the artist took many photos, it was only after he visited the excavated Harappan sites in Lahore in 2013 that he realised the things he sought were in the past, beginning an enduring engagement with historical narratives. The resu...
Religion and spirituality appear throughout Kazim's work and are closely tied to identity. Kazim's Untitled (Woman of Faith series)(2019), for instance, is based on an acquaintance who carries a copy of the Bible with her daily, which prompted an inquiry into the visual language of belief and the difficulties that accompany its preservation when yo...
For the 2018 inaugural edition of the Lahore Biennale, Kazim produced Untitled (Ruins of the lover's temple), a large-scale installation in a public garden consisting of 5000 life-size terracotta hearts. The hearts were picked up and gifted towards the end of the biennale, extending the artwork's life beyond the exhibition site. A similar fragility...
- Pakistani
Nov 17, 2020 · Enigmatic, stirring portraits are the mainstay of Ali Kazim’s practice. Working predominantly with layers of watercolour pigment washed and reapplied, he captures, with meticulous care, isolated south Asian figures foregrounded against empty backgrounds or bold colours.
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May 12, 2020 · In an interview with Global Voices, Ali Kazim speaks about his fascination with the human body, the inspiration he takes from landscape, his current work and what we should know about art in Pakistan now.
