Roohi S. Ahmed

INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED ARTIST ROOHI AHMED , SHOWCASES HER NEW BODY OF WORK "HERMENEUTICS OF THE BODY" AT CANVAS GALLERY ON FEBRUARY 7TH 2012 , FROM 5 PM - 8 PM

ROOHI IS CURRENTLY STUDYING AND TEACHING AT THE COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS, UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.

THE SHOW, CURATED BY EMINENT ART CRITIC NAFISA RIZVI , CONTINUES DAILY UNTIL FEBRUARY 16TH 2012 , FROM 11 AM - 8 PM (excluding Sunday)

Artists Statement

Hermeneutics of the Body

The artist mediates the space in which the body becomes the first line of defense to concurrently fend off and absorb the myriad external stimuli generated by everyday experience. The hand at the end of the arm validates or rejects intake and reaction. The sensory and trans-sensory conduits of the body come together to interpret the value of events, relationships, associations, loss or pain and through faculties of reasoning these stimuli are transformed into a coherent response cache which eventually results in altered life patterns.

In these narratives, the variable terrain of the body participates fully in the accumulation or erasure of memory and experience. But take the physicality of the body out of the equation and you are left with a bundle of recollections, skills, histories, principles and values; all neatly tied up in a large yet malleable package.

Nafisa Rizvi