Title

Urban Myths & Modern Fables

Venues

UTS Gallery (25 September 2007 – 26 October 2007)

Date

(2007)

Summary

Multi-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (NSW). Varius media

Curator

Haema Sivanesan

Countries of context

Australia | India | Pakistan

Abstract

Participating artists:
Hamra Abbas (Pakistan/Germany), Khadim Ali (Pakistan), Henna Nadeem (UK), Hitesh Natalwala (Australia), Tazeen Qayyum (Canada), Nusra Qureshi (Australia), Sabeen Raja (Pakistan/USA), Naeem Rana (Australia), Amin Rehman (Canada), Sangeeta Sandrasegar (Australia), Alia Toor (Canada).

Urban Myths & Modern Fables is an exhibition of new work in contemporary art by artists of Indian and Pakistani background, working in Australia and the international diaspora. Drawing on the notion of myth, a perpetuating narrative featuring heroic or supernatural characters and events, or the idea of a fable, an aphoristic or instructive story, these artists employ fictive strategies to comment on the contemporary world.

Working with conceptual techniques of metaphor, quotation, visual puns and so on, the works in this exhibition challenge master narratives informing perceptions of culture. The work of these artists speaks of culture as operating between the past and the present, the real and the imagined, as an ongoing process of myth-making and story-telling. [gallery media]