11 – 24 August
2017
“The You and I“ is a dynamic idea evolving
over time in relation to how events and experiences can shape us and how we can
counter shape the way we experience the experience.”
We live together, we act on, and react to, one
another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs
go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers
desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single
self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed
to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies—all
these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand,
incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the
experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society
of island universes.
GANJATUN MULLA is an artist. She is best known
for her expressive artistic techniques in compelling visual illustrations of
her homeland and cultural roots. She has spent the most part of her life in
silence, communicating solely through her art. She believes in the empowerment
of women and their struggle for independence in all those who fail to realize
their potential and self-worth.
She is of Omani and Persian decent but was
born and raised in Tanzania before moving to Dubai and later on South Africa.
Ganjatun says her passion for art derives from the works of the surrealist
painter Salvador Dali, whom she likens with her philosophical view of the
world; a world that is only as real as it appears. She is quoted as saying
"we live in the image of who we want to become not of who we've become. In
doing so we subconsciously lose sight of the lessons from the past, the beauty
of the present and the opportunities of the future." Her art has become a
means of expressing this doctrine and to live each day with a sense of optimism
and ambition.
Ganjatun is currently living in Zimbali.
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