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ANWAR SAEED
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Background
Anwar Saeed was born Lahore in 1955. He graduated from National College
of Arts in Lahore in 1978 and spent one year at Royal College of Art in
London where he completed his post graduate studies. He has exhibited
widely in Pakistan and has participated in group shows in USA,
Australia, Norway, Egypt, Jordan and India. He has taught at the
National College of Arts, Lahore, as Associate Professor since 1986.
Artist's Statement
Living in a close knit society where everything affects everything
else according to its old conventional value system, one realises that
this system has hardly anything to do with human nature and its needs.
If we try to look into its bases, we can only find feudal values like
honour and pride which are directly related to shame and guilt. Not only
in rural areas but equally in cities, it is a common thing to see a news
item in media that a brother has killed his sister together with a young
man with whom he suspected that his sister was having a love affair -
killing to overcome a wounded honour, - and we can see that people are
forced to do such things because of shame and guilt which are linked to
taboos associated with religion and sexuality.
I see these as burdens - invisible burdens, - honour, shame and guilt, religion and nationality, sexuality and emotions are huge burdens. If desires and wishes are burdens then fate is another burden.
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