RICHARD KOH FINE ART (RKFA) Singapore is proud to present Karachi based Pakistan artist/curator/teacher, Syed Faraz Ali (b. 1981) first solo exhibition in Singapore entitled TO BE CONTINUED. 11 works in Syed’s unmistakable sepia color figures will be on display from 3 - 18 Aug 2012.

Syed is one of Pakistan’s most active emerging artists with numerous regional and international shows, from Pakistan to Dubai, Turkey, Lithuania and many other countries.

He has also participated in group shows in Singapore. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture in Karachi, Syed first started his career in the art world as a teacher and visiting faculty member at a few schools in his hometown. Syed is very much influenced by Andy Warhol and pop art. He self professes his works are contemporary political art in the pop era.

Syed is renown for his political commentary on the conflicts between Afghanistan, Pakistan and America. In TO BE CONTINUED, Syed explores the delicate balance between religion and social status. It is human being’s futile obsession in seeking inner peace and security that has inspired Syed’s new body of works. A sense of poetic hopelessness is cast upon, deriving from human’s constant fight with delusion and veracity of unique behaviors. Despite this futility, Syed has observed people’s unwavering, and somewhat blind desire to continue this search. To a certain extend, a crusader complex manifests.

“The guild is converting to rats that were following the piped piper beat of the flute not knowing what their end will be. Ignorance is bliss. The society has been developed from pack of fools, if given a sword to a fool the power lies in an unjust man. Picture is never black or white it always has a grey version. The forerunners of this guild are the mistaken identity as protectors and liberators, and yet.. is TO BE CONTINUED” Syed quotes.

An artist with unparalleled candid, Syed creates works that showcases the brutality of life. He narrates unnoticed and unspoken truths, creating a thinly veil concept that can be sometimes deemed controversial.

“If the truth has to come out one way or the other so shall it be this way” Syed mentions (quoted from Balochistan Times, 12 Jan 2012).