Every generation evolves by unraveling pre-existing paradigms to create their own realms. This perennial phenomenon is driven by an ambition of exploring pure realizations of the truth of our existence. In visual art, abstraction connects one to the paths of awakenings through a meditative understandings of every aspect of our living beyond received and decipherable grids of languages, signs, iconographies – both textual and visual. Our cosmos is, as we perceive it, intentionally and unintentionally, formed by structures that surround us. Unknown and visceral, abstraction acquires momentous space with a sense of immense tranquility treading new paths of aesthetic experience.

Shahanshah delves into this spiritual experience by withdrawing from the use of pigments or representative forms and motifs. The vocabulary of visuals does not create a literal meaning, it is poetic, urging one to find colors and reach the blankness of spiritual actuality, constructing and deconstructing meaning in various spaces and time. The collages are steps of realizations, beyond the meanings that we create. The artist carves out his memoirs with layers of paper overlapping each other.

Poetic Reminiscences is the expression of the artist’s need for abstraction as he questions the epistemology of rationality. The exhibition experiments with space, it is an ode to an other-worldly pilgrimage through submerged planes – it coaxes one to introspect and perhaps, transcend dimensions. As Paul Klee says, ‘Art does not reproduce the visible but makes visible’ what commonly is not seen.