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Zeaqraht

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I am artistically interested in examining the inter-related patterns of identity, subconsciousness, possibilities, and improvisation and how it influences people and communities across the globe. I am an interdisciplinary artist working on ranges of media, which includes but not limited to painting, photography, and sculpture.

I use a variety of medium on various materials; new or used canvas, papers, and packaging cardboards or found objects that appropriately challenge, or suit the particular subject that I set out to address in my work.

The process of making my work is rarely pre-planned; an impulsive gradual layering of inconsistence elements that eventually transforms to constructive, narrative work.

Although, some works may start initially as preconceived subjects, but will in the course of making the project subconsciously transforms to different concept in both technique and outcome. In the case of the current finished/unfinished, work Untitled-October 2009, which I intended to make black background with certain symbolic elements, but in the process, it took its own form and turned out to be completely new artistic expression.  

On few occasions, I tend not to take myself seriously thereby using irony to investigate my subjects. In addition, I regularly and intentionally leave my work seems incomplete.

Moreover, I am more interested in the contents of the work and the impression it generates rather than on technique and style: working in a non-linear progression in time embedding metaphors with minimum regard for aesthetics result of the artwork.

My goal is not to achieve perfection but to relentlessly reaching for it as I consider achieving perfection as an illusion and limitation. Therefore, I have my work not too refined to let viewer’s in-depth imagination play critical role in appreciating my work in a socio-cultural context.

 

 

 

 

 

Chris-Alade Zeaqraht