Simeen Farhat solo show

Jamm Art presents a solo exhibition by Pakistan artist Simeen Farhat. Farhat uses the characters of various texts to invent calligraphy-like abstract forms out of cast resin. She then entwines the resin pieces to create her delicate yet chaotic, amorphous sculptures. The deconstructed text, based on Urdu, Persian and English poetry of Rumi, Ghalib, Khayyam and Fitz Gerald among others, morphs into a sensory experience as Farhat manipulates its form and structure. The words in these artworks become indecipherable and exist as self-contained and dynamic visual objects while the overarching meaning of the poems is abstracted.

Simeen Farhat (b. 1968, Karachi) lives and works in Dallas, USA. She has exhibited her work in numerous venues, among them : ArtChowk Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan (2011), Twelve Gates Gallery, Philadelphia, (2011), Xerxes Fine Arts, London, UK (2010) and Sharjah Museum of Modern Art, UAE (2010).