RAWALPINDI: Creativity and new ideas were on display in the galleries of the National College of Arts’ (NCA) Rawalpindi campus on Sunday, where Fine Art undergraduates from the 2016-17 batch presented their thesis projects.
The exhibition was inaugurated by Higher Education Commission (HEC) Chairman Dr Mukhtar Ahmed, and attended by students, their parents, artists and diplomats from the twin cities.
NCA Principal Dr Murtaza Jafri said: “As always, the Rawalpindi campus has produced an overwhelming quality of work.”
“Having viewed the process in many stages while the work was being produced, the thesis work is very interesting.
“Besides investigating formal concerns, the work contextualises opinions, personal queries and beliefs, social practices, gender politics and everything within and around the experiences of these students, who have boldly presented their views in the degree show,” he added.
The exhibited work varied in form, medium and content. Students explored personal and contextual ideas within a body of work not limited by the medium.
Fatima Afridi’s ‘Feel the Difference’ featured an installation of marble, wood and gouache on vasli and digital images, and looked at miniatures from a different perspective.
‘Untitled’ by Neeli Ahmed was concerned with unmasking the ramification of time and its effects through her sculptural work, while Noor Fatima’s ‘Temporal Paradox’ investigated infinity stones through an exploration of the multiverse, in terms of the paradox of time, with sculptures and installations in steel, aluminium and other mediums.