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The Past is a Country: Indo-nostalgia in Contemporary Art

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15 March - 4 June 2024
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Hamid Ali Hanbhi, 2:00, 2023

Hamid Ali Hanbhi

2:00, 2023
Oil on Canvas
36 x 48 in
91.4 x 121.9 cm
HH831
Hamid Ali Hanbhi (born 1989, in Jacobabad) is a Pakistani contemporary artist. He is currently working as an artist and an educator in Lahore. Hanbhi studied at The National...
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Hamid Ali Hanbhi (born 1989, in Jacobabad) is a Pakistani contemporary artist. He is currently working as an artist and an educator in Lahore. Hanbhi studied at The National College of Arts Lahore in Pakistan. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts with a distinction. He works in various mediums including; drawing, painting, sculpture, videos and large-scale installations. He started his career by painting cinema boards, billboards and truck art at Ideal Arts in Jacobabad. Hanbhi’s body of work includes recreation of cinematic visuals. Using his power of imagination, he extracts new meanings out of existing frames to prolong brief moments in them. The visual arc of this series ranges from romantic scenes, war and political imagery to landscapes from fantasy worlds. Juxtaposition of multiple stills from multiple films is the core of Hanbhi’s work. His idea is to create a dialogue between contrasting images while reliving those distant locations and time through the very act of painting. Hanbhi is a multidisciplinary artist and his works have been featured in Imago Mundi, Venice Biennale Italy (2016), Karachi Biennale (2017), He did multiple solo Exhibitions including called Out of Sight at Canvas Gallery, Karachi (2020), Confirm Jannati at O art space Gallery, Lahore(2022) and several group exhibitions, Before the end of time at Canvas Gallery, Karachi (2022), Dar amad at O Art Gallery, Lahore (2022), Uncurated at Full circle gallery, Karachi (2022), RECLAIM at O Art Space, Lahore (2021), NIC at O Art Space, Lahore (2021), IF YOU HAVE TEARS, at Canvas gallery kachi (2021), Virtual Reality, at O Art Space, Lahore (2021).
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