Ahsan Javaid
The missing bloom, 2025
Oil on canvas
60 x 60 inches
For decades, families of the disappeared have gathered in protest, holding photographs and names that risk being forgotten. Meanwhile, certain images endure—unquestioned, unchallenged, and firmly embedded in history. The Missing...
For decades, families of the disappeared have gathered in protest, holding photographs and names that risk being forgotten. Meanwhile, certain images endure—unquestioned, unchallenged, and firmly embedded in history.
The Missing Bloom reflects on the politics of visibility and erasure, where absence itself becomes a site of power. By layering those who vanish with those who remain, the work questions who is allowed to be seen, remembered, and grieved. It examines the uneasy space between loss and spectacle, silence and recognition, and the narratives that shape collective remembrance.
The Missing Bloom reflects on the politics of visibility and erasure, where absence itself becomes a site of power. By layering those who vanish with those who remain, the work questions who is allowed to be seen, remembered, and grieved. It examines the uneasy space between loss and spectacle, silence and recognition, and the narratives that shape collective remembrance.
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