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Fawad Khan, Pakistani-American artist, debuted his solo show Fast Traveling Passenger, earlier this year. Khan’s exploding vehicles are painstakingly rendered central figures in his work. Imagined as war machines, they invoke the stories of their creation and lifespan, asking viewers to consider what has transpired in creating this scene of destruction.
Born on a Libyan military base where his father was a major in the Pakistani Army Medical Corp, Khan found himself to be fascinated with images from the oppressive and aggressively militaristic cultures of his past. 'Certainly media-saturation of the current war has contributed to my obsession' , says the artist. More here.
Born on a Libyan military base where his father was a major in the Pakistani Army Medical Corp, Khan found himself to be fascinated with images from the oppressive and aggressively militaristic cultures of his past. 'Certainly media-saturation of the current war has contributed to my obsession' , says the artist. More here.
wow! this is incredible work: such energy! I love the fluidity and dynamism of these compositions: they take an industrial, oppressive subject and transform them into vehicles for hope and change in this incredible play of forms.
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