Zahra Jewanjee and Simon Coates
Zahra Jewanjee and Simon Coates live in Dubai and collaborate on sound art projects. They started working together in September 2012 and their first piece Vipralambha (Union Through Separation) was exhibited at the 2012 Obserwatorium Urban Sound Festival in Turon, Poland and as part of the Fission : Fusion live art event in Tulsa, USA in February 2013. Their collaboration with The Untied Knot - Microdot (Radio Al Barsha Version) - will feature as part of Reuse Aloud, a month-long exhibition and radio broadcast throughout March 2013 in Newcastle in the UK.
Zahra Jewanjee
Zahra Jewanjee is an artist living and working in Dubai. Originally from Pakistan she is a graduate of the National College of Arts in Lahore. Having studied the first two years of her bachelor’s degree at the Indus Valley School of Arts in Karachi she felt the move to Lahore would be cathartic both for herself and her work.
Interlacing intricate patterns, her paintings become descriptions of social interaction, describing Zahra’s interest in a society that makes different and marginalized communities unite and form social matrices.
Exploring these sub-cultural spaces has allowed her to study the deep rooted cause of why societies exist in small groups and how they are interwoven within each other: hypothetically framing these into small groups in a self-similar pattern, a pattern of behaviour, a social pattern, a pattern of relationships and thus creating a complex system or meme. Using the same vocabulary of gender-relationships to cross gender identity, her photography project ‘Don’t Ask My Real Name’ is a series of photographs taken after she gained acceptance from the tight knit groups of transgender prostitutes and transvestites that entertain at the carnivals and street festivals of Lahore.
Zahra looks at the Jungian theory that man and woman co-exist within each other, causing a vibration or a subjective pattern which projects visual dominance or hierarchy. Could this be responsible for animal instincts (ego) or for some cognitive states to manifest?
A selection of Zahra’s photographic studies of street life in Lahore was published in Chicago’s MAS Context magazine in Autumn 2012.
website: www.zjewanjee.com
Simon Coates
Simon Coates is an English artist living and working in Dubai, where he is Artist In Residence at Dubai’s Gallery of Light.
Coates works in paint, installation, print, text, sound and film, and was educated at the University of Westminster and Plymouth College of Art & Design, both in the UK. His artwork is in private collections worldwide.
His work themes are based around what Coates calls the politics of emotion: human responses to strong, basic feelings that are often buried deep in the psyche.
Since the beginning of 2012 Coates has shown in London, Madrid, Albany New York, Pennsylvania, Naples, Lisbon and more. He is also a contributing writer for Harpers Bazaar Art Arabia.
website: www.simoncoates.com
Zahra Jewanjee and Simon Coates live in Dubai and collaborate on sound art projects. They started working together in September 2012 and their first piece Vipralambha (Union Through Separation) was exhibited at the 2012 Obserwatorium Urban Sound Festival in Turon, Poland and as part of the Fission : Fusion live art event in Tulsa, USA in February 2013. Their collaboration with The Untied Knot - Microdot (Radio Al Barsha Version) - will feature as part of Reuse Aloud, a month-long exhibition and radio broadcast throughout March 2013 in Newcastle in the UK.
Zahra Jewanjee
Zahra Jewanjee is an artist living and working in Dubai. Originally from Pakistan she is a graduate of the National College of Arts in Lahore. Having studied the first two years of her bachelor’s degree at the Indus Valley School of Arts in Karachi she felt the move to Lahore would be cathartic both for herself and her work.
Interlacing intricate patterns, her paintings become descriptions of social interaction, describing Zahra’s interest in a society that makes different and marginalized communities unite and form social matrices.
Exploring these sub-cultural spaces has allowed her to study the deep rooted cause of why societies exist in small groups and how they are interwoven within each other: hypothetically framing these into small groups in a self-similar pattern, a pattern of behaviour, a social pattern, a pattern of relationships and thus creating a complex system or meme. Using the same vocabulary of gender-relationships to cross gender identity, her photography project ‘Don’t Ask My Real Name’ is a series of photographs taken after she gained acceptance from the tight knit groups of transgender prostitutes and transvestites that entertain at the carnivals and street festivals of Lahore.
Zahra looks at the Jungian theory that man and woman co-exist within each other, causing a vibration or a subjective pattern which projects visual dominance or hierarchy. Could this be responsible for animal instincts (ego) or for some cognitive states to manifest?
A selection of Zahra’s photographic studies of street life in Lahore was published in Chicago’s MAS Context magazine in Autumn 2012.
website: www.zjewanjee.com
Simon Coates
Simon Coates is an English artist living and working in Dubai, where he is Artist In Residence at Dubai’s Gallery of Light.
Coates works in paint, installation, print, text, sound and film, and was educated at the University of Westminster and Plymouth College of Art & Design, both in the UK. His artwork is in private collections worldwide.
His work themes are based around what Coates calls the politics of emotion: human responses to strong, basic feelings that are often buried deep in the psyche.
Since the beginning of 2012 Coates has shown in London, Madrid, Albany New York, Pennsylvania, Naples, Lisbon and more. He is also a contributing writer for Harpers Bazaar Art Arabia.
website: www.simoncoates.com
