Ahsan Javaid
My practice deals with the ideas of originality, reality and representation. These are all relative terms and could not be
assumed to form a universal understanding. Information that reaches us is a collection of cropped ideas some times by us, sometimes by others. It depends on how well we paste them together to form a picture of our very own reality. But human brain works in various ways and tries to find similar ideas to validate its own; hence together we start establishing shared realities and conventional understandings. I use my practice as a tool to criticize and comment on such understandings and construct a new meaning to generate a dialogue between my work, viewers and myself. I have been using various methods to crop, cut and paste information from a variety of media including references from newspapers, magazines, popular imagery and history.
