Festival of Muslim Cultures: UK 2006
Festival of Muslim Cultures | UK 2006 Print Project | exhibitions | contemporary pakistani printmakers | Ali Raza
Ali Raza
Ali Raza was born in Lahore in 1969. He has settled with his family in North Carolina, USA where he works as Assistant Professor in Painting and Drawing at University of Minnesota. Ali Raza regularly curates exhibitions and his paintings and prints have been widely exhibited across Asia and USA.
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My work evolves from the interaction of diverse themes. I see it as a fusion of concepts varying from subjective histories to quotidian references. For example, I appropriate and rework images and ideas from art history, different types of magazines, free shopping guides, images and travel. During my image making process, I use memory and imagination, with reasoning and intuition. My images are subjective: Who am I? - What do I know? - What are my defined roles and their interactions within society? This accumulation of diverse ideas in the form of related/ unrelated charged images is my way of comparing and presenting wide-ranging issues and concepts to produce a thought provoking image. I want to see my imagery as a potential code that can carry multiple interpretations, rather than a single meaning.
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