Madiha Siraj

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The artist creates a space that could transform the recognization of everyday objects and trying to take the participants into a pixelized reality. Her most famous installation pieces involve thousands of paint swatches from Lowe's. The arrangement of the squares breaks up the linearity and planarity of the grid and changed the white gallery space into somewhere between the physical and digital world. Siraj's works are influenced by the Islam culture. In Islamic art, repeated shapes represent the perfect design of our world by the god. The handmade patterns express the idea about the human natural essence, artists attempt to imitate the perfection but eventually cannot come true due to the human error. This concept inspired Siraj's practice to present the inevitable imperfection by a human hand.

藝術家通過創造一個改變空間的環境來反轉這些物體的平凡，讓觀眾進入像素化的現實。她最著名的裝置是由Lowe's的數千種油漆樣品平湊而成的。空間中的正方形排列打破了網格的平面性和線性，並將白色畫廊空間改變為在物理世界和數字世界之間的某個地方。Siraj對她的文化的探索導致她在混合媒體繪畫中使用伊斯蘭幾何圖案。 在伊斯蘭藝術中，形狀被重複以代表宇宙的完美和上帝的設計。 通過使用這些模式，藝術家模仿上帝宇宙的完美，但最終由於人為錯誤而無法實現。 這一概念激發了Siraj對她作品中出現的不可避免的不完美之處的頌揚。