Nisha Hasan – Captured Time

Steering clear of any crude realism, Inaam Zafar has painted stills from local television and cinema. We see people; in banal situations, with spatially anonymous and indifferent backgrounds. There is tangible fatigue, melancholy, boredom, monotony and struggle in the people painted. These paintings operate almost as slides— “captured time”, inciting reflection on memory and experience. […]