A Tension Between Dimness and Luminosity

Staff Report - The Daily Times - Pakistan
Thursday, December 13, 2007


Islamabad: The latest work of Pakistan born artist, Mansoora Hassan, is to be exhibited at the Tanzara Gallery starting tomorrow (Friday, Dec. 14th).

Currently based in Turkey, her work is influenced by Sufi thought as she continues to employ various techniques she has experimented with and developed over the years.

She has built her own distinctive body of symbolism that addresses itself through a soul-searching process. Architectural elements, masks and gestures are woven into the layered mixed-media paintings on canvas and handmade paper.

As a contemporary image-maker, Hassan wishes to push artistic limits through diverse aesthetic considerations and visual explorations of select social and political issues.

She has co-founded several nonprofit organizations to engage in a dialogue that aims to increase cross-cultural understanding, education and human development through the arts.

Mansoora’s work has a distinctive flavor that sets her apart from other modern artists. She is a photographer, a painter working in mixed media and a video artist.

Seeking a basic commonality of spirit in an increasingly dissonant world, she has used an approach that depends upon a tension between dimness and luminosity to articulate her artistic vision: imagery concealed in multiple veils.

[Picture: Mixed media work from the Rumi series. Visit the Artist at her web site http://www.mansoorahassan.com/].