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Upcoming Exhibitions
Solo exhibition "Unspoken", 2014
There was an unspoken understanding between them. It was unstated, unexpressed, unuttered, unsaid, unmentioned, unvoiced, unarticulated, undeclared, unavowed, not spelt out, silent, wordless, voiceless but at the same time tacit, implicit, insunuated, taken for granted, hinted, suggested but understood. We all live in unspoken worlds.



Past Exhibitions
Solo exhibition "Soulmates", 7 March 2013 - Geneva, Switzerland

Wikipedia defines a Soulmate as “a Soulmate (or soul mate) is believed by some to be the person with whom one has a feeling of deep or natural affinity, similarity, love, sex, intimacy, sexuality, spirituality, or compatibility”. In his dialogue The Symposium, Plato has Aristophanes present a story about soulmates. Aristophanes states that humans originally had four arms, four legs, and a single head made of two faces, but Zeus feared their power and split them all in half, condemning them to spend their lives searching for the other half to complete them. Although I think this is a profound definition of a Soulmate it is incomplete. First of all it takes way too long to find a Soulmate. Soulmates are rare and not easy to find. Actually, we spend all our lives searching for Soulmates without even realizing it. Most of us quickly give up and stop believing that we would ever find one in our lifetime. In addition, I think any “thing” can have the potential to become a Soulmate. Obviously a person first comes to mind but a painting, a story, a song, a book, a city, a country, a pet, an object, an idea, a belief can all have the capacity to become a soulmate. With this current exhibition I want to create paintings that are close to being a soulmate by their own right. Paintings that talk to us through their perceived souls. Each painting will represent a different attribute of a soulmate.

Group exhibition "PA(F) NYC", 3-5 August 2012, New York, USA

Solo exhibition "Heartbeats", 26-28 April 2012 - Geneva, Switzerland

Heartbeats make us live, taste and feel life. Heartbeats are what make us go around and what make us tick. They are the starting and ending curtains of life. They are the essence of passion, compassion and love. Without heartbeats, life as we know it, simply does not exist. Life is full of heartbeats. Feel your heartbeats. Feel life. Life runs on heartbeats.

Group exhibition "Parallax", 16-18 February 2012 - London, UK

Solo exhibition "Stubborn", 3 November 2011
- Geneva, Switzerland
The biggest killer of all times, ignorance still persists. I call ignorance “not-knowing” and it has caused the death of millions and wiped out civilizations since time immemorial. “Not-knowing” is at the core of any individual problem as well. Ignorance or “not-knowing” causes big pain in people's lives. The consequences of “not-knowing” can be devastating and result in all sorts of loss; tangible or intangible. I believe that “knowledge is your currency and understanding is power”. And if you can act on your understanding then that is equal to designing a roadmap out of “not-knowing”. The mission of my first exhibition was to mobilize resources, as much as I can, to help get rid of this big killer. I know this is quite ambitious but I think life without ambition is not a life worth living anyway.


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