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Marcel Duchamp described a shadow as the fourth dimension, but the existence of the shadow is a sign of the presence of light. Farida Batool, an Enlightenment participant, has done a lot of work on shadows. Most of its titles refer to shadows, some recalling the verses of Faiz Ahmed Faiz. Like Awaz kay saye (2020), a video that captures the impossible scenario of sound reflection. Batool rendering the shadow of the changing foliage on earth with sparse leaves, stems and a few scraps, handles the unimaginable because the whole rectangle begins to look like the ripples of a floating body of water.

shadow of sound, created a VR (Chand ka saye talay) that takes you from the well-lit CAFN room to crowded houses and a corner of the sky with a moving moon. Moon also travels in another of his works. The lenticular print Chand Kay Paar spreads a full moon over all five frames. Almost the cycle of the moon, but it also makes us realize how much light affects us, accompanies us and transforms us.


The power, the presence and the play of light are visible in the work of Christine Ferrer Luminous Bodies (2015): human bodies without head, holding hands and forming a circle on the gallery floor. Made of burlap phone number library with LED lights inside, these can be identified with migrants struggling to survive on the shores of the Mediterranean. It also echoes the iconic painting of Henri Matisse Dance), except that Ferrer’s bodies have no heads, resulting in corpses floating on the surface of the water or lying on the ground.

Memories of loss, of immediate and distant past (also political), can be deciphered in the art of Risham Syed. His two installations integrate different connotations, the use and observation of light.