Bio
(b. 1981, Pakistan) is a visual artist and educator. She received a BFA from National College of Art (2003) and an MA in art education from Beaconhouse National University (2017). Her work explores the act of viewing. For View Within, 2020, Rana’s creation blurs the lines between the subject and the spectator. The rapidly diminishing difference between reality and its reflection is the main motif — and motive — of the work. Created with coats of images it investigates the perception and presence of known reality. The work provides a passage to approach or access the optical world through multiple interfaces. These mediate between physical presence and its representation: two entities that in our times have blended to such an extent that it is difficult to distinguish the subject and the spectator.
Artist Statement
Ideas often come with a baggage of history. All creations or works of art reflect an ethos of their space and era of that time. Patterns of thought usually correspond to the time period they belong to. However, time itself is a nebulous constellation of ideas, which brings notions of conventional chronology in the forming of ideas into questions.
Lies that look true, or are true in some cases, are suspended in purgatory by the scheme of presenting facts.
The rapidly diminishing difference between reality and its reflection is the main motif — and motive — of the work “View Within”. Created with coats of images it investigates the perception and presence of known reality.
The work provides a passage to approach or access the optical world through multiple interfaces. These mediate between physical presence and its representation: two entities that in our times have blended to such an extent that it is difficult to distinguish the subject and the spectator.
