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Anarchy of Senses
by State-of-the-Arts Gallery
Location: State-of-the-Arts Gallery
Artist(s): Ghasan SAAID
Date: 16 Aug - 18 Sep 2010

His works guide the viewers' eyes from anarchy to self-deliberation, triggering audiences’ self-exploration of the inexplicable - the unconsciousness, by encouraging them to look a little further.

Ghasan draws our attention in by the attractive, colourful and familiar icons on his canvas, where their simplicity, together with the mysterious or exotic symbols, evoke deeper reflection. This stretches from the secretive and obscure relationship between the individual, the group, and the environment, to the culture that we are surrounded by. Moreover, through portraying the conscious visual in its simplest form, Ghasan extracts the viewer from the surface contemplation of the visual, leading them to see and reflect on the deeper stir - aesthetic sensation. Presence is reduced and the tumultuous and separated images are uplifted further through his use of a sharp stroke across the surface.
 
Ghasan’s canvases are divided into cells, each representing a mini-painting. The mini-images together interact harmoniously to evoke an infinite number of possible meanings. Different stories, icons, and symbols were borrowed, from daily-life familiars to exotic symbolic, from contemporary to historical, from descriptive to abstract. To guide audiences from the visual and understandable to the inexplicable unconsciousness - audiences are invited to reflect upon their ongoing stirring inner feelings. Viewers are challenged to sense their identities and their relationships with the environment. Responding to the fact that the unconscious side of reality cannot be revealed merely by representativeness in painting, Ghasan invites audiences to disclose their concealed feelings, to deliberate their own minds.

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