Ecatalogue
Curator’s Note
Khat-o-Kitabat | connecting to Past-Present-Future
December 2021

Through Past-Present-Future, visual artists examined the relevance, relationship and
purpose of size in context to their individual practices.
Khat-o-Kitabat invites the artist to re-examine the essence of a meaning in their
given names; a relevance, a relationship and a purpose. The culmination of this
collaborative project between O Art Space and Koel Gallery expands its horizons to
look at the origins of a size and the origins of the artist.
The size for the work is set on the magical aspect ratio 1:1.4142 further defined as 1
is to the square root of 2. This standard describes the A4 size as we know it today,
which was born in a letter between two friends in 1786, was set as a measure in
1922, eventually becoming an official metric standard in 1975. The premise was the
advantages of a height to width ratio that assists in resizing images and the
calculation of large volumes.
Ninety-nine artists are invited to use an A4 size to navigate a letter to themselves. A
documentation, a resizing, a pictorial monologue between the origins of the size and
the self. The significance of which is relevant to both, the artist and the viewer, in
terms of the actual experience, movability and accessibility.

Nurayah Sheikh and R.M. Naeem