portfolio - art by saba hasan

P o r t f o l i o

Saba Hasan, a prominent Delhi artist, has been working for over 12 years in the realm of abstract art. In her mixed media works, she has developed a distinct visual alphabet by layering materials like plaster, sand, leaves, nails and fabric to create large textured works, which often contain written references based in personal history, literature or politics.
Sometimes she leaves works outdoors to erode and change under natural conditions making the environment and time participants in her work.
The same sunlight, stones and water have naturally entered many of Saba’s recent digital prints. For these, she has also found a familiar subject in her neighbourhood, Hauz Khas Madarsa and its lake, which she has sketched, photographed and closely observed for almost 15 years.
As a natural outcome of her use of the written word and her love for music, she has been exploring sound, adding it over the years to her compelling syllabary of materials. Sound installation, the artist feels, allows her to leave the confines of a gallery into other more pulsating spaces, resulting in an expanded conceptual space as well. Saba is currently working in these broad areas of artistic terrain and her objective is to create a body of work, which will position itself against the traditional beliefs of a pro-combat social system, bound instead by ideals of oneness, pacifism and commonality of fate.