A CONVERSATION WITH LEADING ARTIST KHADIM ALI ON HIS NEWLY
COMMISSIONED BILLBOARD 'EVERY WAR IS A DEFEAT' (2019). Born and raised
in Pakistan, Khadim Ali’s work is heavily influence by his
family’s experience as Hazara refugees, fleeing Taliban persecution
in Afghanistan. In this new work, made in collaboration with Ali's
colleagues at the Bamyan Art Space in Afghanistan, Ali’s signature
demons are overlaid with imagery of modern-day warfare. This
conversation with UNSW Galleries Director, José Da Silva, will
discuss the development of the commission and Ali's current practice
more broadly, considering the concept of good and evil and how this is
redefined through shifting perspectives.
Drinks reception from 5:30pm. In conversation from 6:30pm.
KHADIM ALI (b. 1978 Quetta, Pakistan; lives in Sydney, Australia) grew
up in Pakistan as a refugee, before being trained in classical
miniature painting at the National College of Arts in Lahore and in
mural painting and calligraphy in Tehran. Ali’s paintings tell
stories about loss (of his own cultural heritage and of human values)
and about how meaning shifts as words and images are perverted through
ideological adoption. Selected exhibitions include the Venice Biennial
(2009); Safavid revisited, APT5, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of
Modern Art, Brisbane (QAGOMA, 2006); British Museum, London; No
Country: Contemporary Art for South East Asia at the Guggenheim New
York (2013) and Documenta (13) (2012). Ali’s work is held in the
collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Australian War
Memorial, Art Gallery of New South Wales, QAGOMA, Brisbane, Victoria
and Albert Museum, London and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New
York. Recent exhibitions include The National: New Australian Art
(2017), the Dhaka Art Summit (2018), the solo exhibited, Fragmented
Memories (2018), at Gertrude Contemporary and Lahore Biennale 2020.
_Every War is a Defeat _(2019) is a public work commissioned with the
generous support of Bill Manos through ‘Facing Equality’, an
initiative of the UNSW Grand Challenge on Inequality, led by
Professors Rosalind Dixon and Richard Holden.
Image: Khadim Ali, ‘Every War is a Defeat’ (2019), UNSW Art &
Design. Photo by Marty Jamieson.
Additional public programs will take place throughout the exhibition
period. For more information visit UNSW Galleries
[https://artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries].
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