Ab-Anbar Gallery presents the first solo exhibition at the gallery by Canadian artist, Shaan Syed.
Bringing together newly produced and existing works, the exhibition centres around a monumental body of paintings titled The Judge’s Quarters, which marks the first time the group will be shown in its entirety.
At the core of Syed’s practice lies an investigation into the politics of seeing. Working across the intersections of multiple cultural genealogies, between India, Pakistan, Britain, and Canada, Syed engages the phenomenological and psychoanalytic dimensions of painting, exploring how paintings – or ‘signs’ as he calls them – are produced, perceived, and continually reinterpreted.
Image Credits: EP 2.13, oil and paper collage on linen, 2024-26, 195 x 160cm
Courtesy of the artist