Nature Morte is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Tauseef Khan. The title of the exhibition, Polygonal Tessellations, refers to the artist’s subject matter: the geometrical patterning found in hyper-decorated mosques throughout the Islamic World. To tessellate refers to creating a mosaic pattern from a variety of shapes. Khan further abstracts these colorful patterns by viewing them through a scrim of shaped drinking glasses, distorting and softening them, as if seen through a cloud of memory or in a hallucinatory haze. His subject is both personal and political, as if he is questioning his own cultural inheritance, his relationship to traditions that are both seductive and complicated.
Find out more about the show here.