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Soliloquy and dialogue
An exhibition of artworks by Ahmed Faizan Naveed titled Soliloquy is underway at the Full Circle Gallery.
The artist has chosen a unique give-away for his viewers to understand the gist of his effort. ‘Soliloquy’ is a word that’s not often used these days. It is a kind of a technique that old playwrights and writers employed to familiarise their readers with the inner thoughts of a character. The difference, or one of the differences, between a monologue and a soliloquy is that in the former, the character who is expressing himself/herself has listeners; but in the case of the latter, s/he is talking to himself/herself (Hamlet’s famous seven soliloquies are a fine example) in order for the audience to get the drift of his thoughts.