1X1 Art Gallery in Dubai invites you to attend For Every Horizon That You Leave Behind, multidisciplinary Indian artist Owais Husain’s first solo show in the UAE. Curated by art critic and curator Gayatri Sinha, it displays art pieces (paintings, sculptures, installations, videos, and poetry) he has produced since 2017. The works focus on and imbue the “fragile” expression that applies to our social, cultural, and political surroundings and the spaces we live in. The exhibition will be open to the public until the 30th of April, 2024.
About the artist
Owais Husain (b. 1967, Mumbai, India) divides his time between his hometown and Dubai. Son of M.F. Husain (one of the most celebrated and internationally famous Indian artists of the 20th century), Owais received his BFA from Sir J.J School of Art (Mumbai) in 1990. In 1986, he pursued his art education at Bharat Bhavan (Bhopal, India), where he was an apprentice mentored by Indian artist and painter Jagdish Swaminathan. This was followed by an apprenticeship with African-American artist and teacher Robert Blackburn in New York (USA, 1989).
Employing such mediums as painting, sculpture, photography, poetry, installation, and video, Husain creates diverse artworks that reference his roots in a traditional Indian style and simultaneously embody his pursuit to evolve and contemporise that iconography. Among the themes he is interested in are cultural identity, urban mythology, displacement, and a modern-day notion of journey.
Husain has carried out many solo exhibitions which include Heart of Silence (Capsule Arts, Dubai, 2015); My Body, A Fleet of Ships (W. Foundation, Seoul, South Korea, 2014); 3 Worlds (Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai, 2010); Forest of Lost Languages (Aicon Gallery, New York, 2006); and Owais Husain: New Works (Gallery 88, Calcutta, India, 2000), among others. The artist has also participated in multiple group shows: Contemporary Art (Dunia Media City Financial Centre, Dubai, 2011); Owais/Tassaduq (Unicorn Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan, 2010); Indian Art III/III, curated by Nancy Adajania (Vadehra Grosvenor Gallery, London, UK, 2007); and others.
As a filmmaker, Husain draws inspiration from Italian B&W films and southern India’s dazzling cinema culture. Since 2000, he has directed and produced a number of feature-length Hindi films, which have been screened at the London International Film Festival (2000), the Berlin Film Biennale (2001), the Cannes Film Festival and Melbourne International Film Festival (2004), the Tribeca International Film Festival (Doha, 2010), and the V&A (London, 2014).
To get more information about For Every Horizon That You Leave Behind, please visit the official web page of the show.
Additionally, you might be interested in exploring Bottle Neck, a solo exhibition by Moataz Nasr.
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