Waqas Khan’s in Dance of the Retina, continues his engagement with Bardhakhat, a Mughal miniature painting technique, but challenges himself to find an individual and contemporary reflection echoing is own time. Using a 1 mm rapidography pen, the artists conjures dots and lines, so nuanced invisible to the eye, almost like a magicien, making these forms appear that dance or move to their own rhythm, embodying their own “jouissance,” or energy.

The artist’s practice in its entirety could be viewed as a timeless interstitial engagement, wherein these constellations journey to seek an expanded encounter with the universal, or to question an infinite relationship with themselves. Perhaps much like a koan, in constant search for the world, the artist’s work informs the viewer to look inward in order to reflect on his or her own subjectivity and encounter their unknown self.

About the Artist:

Waqas Khan was born in Pakistan in 1982 and educated at the National College of Arts in Lahore in Printmaking and Miniature painting. He has exhibited widely in several exhibitions, and his solo shows are Abstraction Contained, Sabrina Marani Gallery, Madrid, Spain, 2012, Even Infinity Takes Time, Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai, 2010, DOT at National College Art Gallery, Lahore and Shift at the Rohtas 2 Gallery and Canvas Gallery. He participated in the print exhibition at Alhambra Arts Council, Lahore and Artists of Pakistan at National College of Arts in 2008 and the „Other side‟ a show at Chowkandi Gallery in 2009. He is currently an artist in residence in Krinzinger Project Space, Vienna, Austria, and will be showing at Art Miami in 2012 and the Indian Art fair 2013.