Collective Cohesion
Collective Cohesion is a joint venture between a group of 26 visual artists, who are recent graduates of the Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture, and myself. This platform was created to collectively reflect on and showcase what we felt were significant transitions in individual art practices, from academia to the real world.
The prolonged state of existence of the pandemic, impacted the individuals’ going through various stages of creative development, as they navigated themselves into a new normal. A series of conversations merged into a visual encounter of mechanisms and forces of what was shared, assigned, observed and sensed during physical isolation. Growth in an alternate online togetherness provided a communal involvement, that might otherwise have been separate. This bound the group in a fluid yet certain form. Here, the platform transformed to support and encourage the group to persevere and remain strong, active and productive.
This body of work preserves distinct trajectories and documents the shared experience of surviving a historical global occurrence.
Global: 49,578,590 confirmed cases 1,245,717 deaths
Pakistan: 341,753 confirmed cases 6,943 deaths
(WHO Coronavirus Disease(COVID-19) Dashboard Data as of 4:07pm CET, 8 November 2020)
Nurayah Sheikh Nabi
WORKS
Lagam
Ceramic paint on white clay
9 x 7 inches
Untitled
Gouache on wasli
11 x 9 inches
Untitled
Gouache on wasli
10 x 8 inches
Happy Mother’s Day
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 48 inches
Abstracted View III
Oil on canvas
72 x 36 inches
Untitled
Machine and handstitched dyed fabric
21 x 34 inches
Rosa Bella
Acrylic on canvas
25.5 x 44 inches
The Presence of Rhythm 1
Oil on canvas
11 x 15 inches
The Presence of Rhythm 4
Oil on canvas
11 x 15 inches
The Presence of Rhythm 3
Oil on canvas
11 x 15 inches
The Presence of Rhythm 2
Oil on canvas
11 x 15 inches
Untitled
Georgette, organza,silk, chiffon and tulle
63 x 25 inches
Mended
Mixed media relief
13 x 9 inches
Untitled 2
Acrylic on canvas (framed)
29 x 41 inches
Untitled 1
Print on Somerset
12 x 14 inches
Angler
Oil paint and enamel on canvas
54 x 42 inches
Coexistence
Linocut and acrylic on paper
30 x 22 inches
Untitled
Charcoal and colour pencils on archival paper
8 x 16.6 inches
Forest of Unhappiness
Acrylic on canvas
65 x 138 inches
Gharelu Jhagra
Acrylic, ink, soft pastel, colour pencils, pencils and collage on Montvall
60 x 80 inches
Loop
Oil pastels
30 x 20 inches
Untitled 1
Oil and mixed media on canvas
21.5 x 35.5 inches
Untitled 2
Oil and mixed media on canvas
24.5 x 39.5 inches
Hyphen
Recycled wood
16 feet 2 inches x
8 feet 4 inches x
6 feet 2.5 inches
Resonance
Acrylic on canvas
62 x 50 inches
Untitled 2
Gouache on wasli
14.5 x 9.5 inches
Untitled 1
Gouache on wasli
8.5 x 9.5 inches
22:08
Gouache and ink on paper
5 x 7 inches
11:16
Gouache and ink on paper
6.5 x 7 inches
13:34
Gouache and ink on paper
7 x 5 inches
Untitled 1
Gouache on wasli
8 x 5 inches
Untitled 2
Gouache on wasli
4 x 4 inches
Untitled 3
Collage on wasli
5 x 5 inches
Aureola
Acrylic and neon light tubes
24 x 18 inches
Dark Illumination
Ceramic, resin and gold leaf
13 inches
Untitled
Charcoal powder on Montwal
79 x 55 inches
U-Turn
Charcoal powder soft pastels on paper
34 x 63 inches
Milky Way
Digital photographs
72 x 20 inches
Prosthesis
Mixed media
9 x 9 inches
Crack
Mixed media
10 x 10 inches
Bloom – 2020
Media mixed
6 x 6 inches
INSTALLATION VIEWS
OPENING NIGHT