Nomad

andtake
Sedentary
Theories of Cultural
nomadism
their first ideational form in
the late post-modernist phase when the invention of the
internet presented itself as an opportunity for a new paradigm
in knowledge distribution.
it was looked at as a technology that would greatly influence
the speed of information-gathering and indeed transform
human communication. Since then, the internet has been
appropriated by and subjected to vast commercial exploitation:
Cultural Nomadism as a lifestyle is advocated by those
technicist corporations who stand to gain the most by
monetising a set of human needs. This cultural phenomenon
situation has been nowhere critiqued so forcefully as from the
Structuralist standpoint, and from within sociology and an
already well-developed sense of technicism's negative impact
on Humanism.

This intended exhibition by three local artists is based on close

stylistic and theoretical standpoints of each artists practice.
Karachi offers a high level of visual and emotive experience.
Each artist as attempted to translate his or her lived experience
to state ideas that range from the ethnographic, to the
philosophical.
Karachi 2016

opportunity to sink through stratifications and hierarchies to reach a

particular source: Pythagorean principles of geometric proportion and
music, and Aristotle's theory of presence and absence of properties of
matter and substance, the ideational foundations which are said to
underlie philosophical notions of identity and difference. This allows
for a close attention to and exploration of considerations of colour,
form and temporality. The result is a series of works that are visually
musical in the repetition of elements.
DIVE
Mixed media on canvas and wood
70cms x 225cms

Paul-Mehdi Rizvi has an academic background in Medicine, Business

Administration (Information technology) Web Design and a BTEC in
Audio-Visual Design. These qualifications and a skillset that ranges
from Fine Art to the Digital Domain, have collectively helped him work
at professional levels in The UK as well as Pakistan, as a Creative
Head in Advertising and as a Producer-Director in Film and Television.
Since deciding to become a practicing artist, he has indulged his
tendency for auto-didactism, and has been reading extensively in Art,
as well as Philosophy, Psychiatry and Sociology with a focus on their
relationships to Aesthetics. As such he now feels himself better
informed and enabled to continue working within Contemporary Art
at advanced levels.
He has exhibited successfully in Pakistan since 2003, having
displayed work in independent group shows and at the Alliance
Francaise, with a solo show at Artchowk gallery in 2012. A number of
group shows have followed since.