Please join us for the opening of Sameen Agha’s first international solo exhibition Catalyst.

Thursday 25th July
6-8 PM

Followed by drinks at The Seven Stars!

Agha’s work explores the emotional landscape of the home while considering its social and physical attributes as they intersect with gender and self-identity. Working through her personal experience and memory, the works confront the complexities of loss, belonging and remembrance.

Agha works across sculpture, painting and installation. Her recent series My house on fire and Home is a terrible place to love grapple with a sense of contained destruction, as her works invite viewers to contemplate, in a paradoxical sense, the comfort and safety of domestic life against the potential for upheaval or discord. She uses materials often employed in the construction of homes and gravestones such as marble, metal and wood; casting, carving and finishing them by hand to retain gestures of touch and memory. Agha works extensively with Nowshera pink marble, which is solid and imposing, yet pliable in texture. Its unique hues and patterns, reminiscent of bruised skin, evoke themes of agony and remembrance. The works utilise the interplay between strength and fragility, permanence and impermanence, to interrogate the meaning and experience of home.

Agha lives and works in Lahore. She is the recipient of the Sovereign Asian Art Prize 2024
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