An Analysis of “Revisit” Exhibition by R.M Naeem

Unruly analysis of Art exhibition

Ahmed Art Talk

Finding newer sensibilities through bodily experience

The bodily experience has a conditioning of its own, while emerging from personalized sensibilities, it has power to transcend boundaries of time and space; and illuminate realities that continue to evolve, as a process of communication and engagement with external world.  In commenting on body forms, Merleau-Ponty (2008) argues that body, means to be united to a certain world: our body is not in space, but it is of it. Contemporary visual art thus, while using figurative anatomy of distinct forms and shape, purposely play with the rules of interior and exterior perspectives. As paint thickens the canvas, the whole complex weavings of different point of views amalgamate to open gateway for myriad energies.

Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (1944) by Francis Bacon and Black Iris (1926) by Georgia O’Keeffe provide examples of how mundane body forms hav e…

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