“Rehearsal for a Poem by Saba Hasan

Installation/Sound Scape

 

 

Saba Hasan, a prominent contemporary artist, has been making significant contributions in the realm of abstract art both in technique and concepts in over15 years of practice. She has been awarded the National Raza Award for painting and international fellowships in art and culture from Syracuse University, Ecole D’Arts Visuels, Lausanne, the French Cultural Ministry, the George Keyt Art Foundation, the Florence Biennale and the Oscar Kokoschka Academy in Austria.

 

As an artist and anthropologist, Saba is acutely aware of the interplay of cultural and political factors in contemporary art. She has successfully developed her own visual alphabet using non-traditional materials like, plaster, sand, leaves, nails and text/sound to create works which are imbued with restrained undertones and multiple meanings. These mixed media works often contain written references based in personal history and literature and range from relief paintings to photographs and installations.

 

Saba’s current work is looking for space more and more in the conceptual realm, predicated on philosophical and metaphysical questions. She continues to work with organic elements, sound and text creating conceptual site-specific installations using her own carefully constructed alphabet of signs and techniques within a natural setting. For this outdoor installation, Saba has added the dimension of sound recorded in her voice to act as the necessary subtext.


She is now taking the sound installation which is a poem written by me to present in public spaces in new york city. the project is called the rehearsal goes on. She will be at Central Park,outside MOMA,outside the Meropolitan,in Columbia University, Greenwich Village and at the Bob Dylan concert outside area. It will be awesome fun...She insists!

 

For more on the artist www.sabahasan.com