February 29 - March 28, 2024
From Tarrant County College:
“Humna Raza is a multidisciplinary artist interested in the human body and suppressed emotions. Her most recent body of work is a reflection of her private thoughts and sensations. Her works explore concealed feelings of trauma, stress, anxiety, and depression through a variety of mediums such as painting, drawing, ceramics, and photography.
In Tangles, Knots, and Binds, Raza uses hair, hands, and her own face as visual metaphors for the secrets and lies that have kept her bound in suffering. Hands have the power to create and destroy. Hair has energy and deep ties that are both symbolic and cultural. The face is one’s identity and revealer of emotions. The paintings stress perfectionism, the drawings and ceramics embody freedom, and the photographs seize the harshest, genuine truth.
This series is the story of a young woman facing the trials and tribulations of the ever-growing world around her. It is the harrowing and honest expression of her emotions towards her home, her race, her culture, her religion, her nationality, her gender, and her family. It is a visual gateway for understanding and relating the painful emotions that we all collectively share, in this reality and the next.”
Reception: February 29, 2024 | 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Carillon Gallery - Tarrant County College South
5301 Campus Dr.
Ft. Worth, 76119 TX
(817) 515-4216
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