Ahmed Farooqui - Mysteries of the Organism

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Ahmed Farooqui Mysteries of the Organism 7-12 March 2013 Gallery 2 Private Views: Thursday 7 March 6-9pm Saturday 9 March 4-7pm Ahmed Farooqui has created an immersive installation especially for the Espacio Gallery, where perspective is banished and the viewer is surrounded by a dark world of eerie, weightless entities that tremble on the edge of materiality. This is null-space, revealed by the stern gaze of science and recreated by the artist as space opera. There are characters and narratives here enough for many lifetimes. Ahmed Farooqui is a sculptor and installation artist with an interest in turning the artistic gaze on scientific insights. Mysteries of the Organism" brings together a number of new large scale installations and sculptures that mark the artist's journey of discovery into the biological sciences.