Shrike with Fruits is a work in oil on canvas.
Muhammad Yusuf, Features Writer
“I think people, places, objects are only as much obedient to their selves as we expect them to be,” says artist Narmeen Zain. She was speaking on the sidelines of the latest exhibition she was taking part in, hosted by Dubai International Art Centre at The H Dubai. “Objects don’t exist in isolation,” she adds. “The links between them are hard for me to put into words, but I know that we overlap more than we are separate. However, there’s a volatility there that I sometimes forget. When I look in a mirror, for example, my face is broken into billions of others. But it is still my face. My work relies on this enmeshment.”
Many of Zain’s paintings begin in dreams, expressed in oils and acrylics. Though bound by language, art for her is something that exists outside its bounds because it can show thoughts that lie too deep for words. She has exhibited in places as far as Dubai and Karachi, Abu Dhabi and Mumbai. She has won awards ever since she was a student in Dubai and she has been Volunteer Art Teacher at Senses Residential and Day Care for Special Needs, Dubai. She went for higher studies to the UK (in the tech field) and is currently in Dubai, where she spoke to Gulf Today
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