Exhibition
The Anti-Object: Saif Osmani - Oxford House
The Anti-Object
What lies beyond our fixation with corporeal representation and objectification of everyday articles?
With a practice that overlaps architecture and interiors, painting and written script, Saif Osmani's most recent exhibition explores the notion of The Anti-Object through narratives in space, drawing meaning from what already exists around us and viewing a reality of continuous dimensional experiences, beyond religious settings and iconography.
Paintings of Jesus Christ and the crucifix are re-attributing to an Islamic aesthetic, symbolic buildings and spatial environments are materially examined, from the constructs of a stall at a street market to an exploding Kaaba, reconstructed.
Through a sequence of ‘found’ objects, links are made with London (UK), Mecca (Saudi Arabia) and Sylhet (north-east Bangladesh).
