Citizens

Artezaar | Stand : RA01, RA02, RA03, RA04, RA05, RA10

“Citizens (2023) highlights the complexity of the modern concept of citizenship in an extremely globalized (which perhaps is getting more connected as time goes on) and technologically entangled world. Khalil has cited Herbert Marcuse’s critique of the industrial state as an inspiration for this work. Which Marcuse asserts, in the short term, that modern society engineers conformity and suppresses individuality.

The oil painting has what seems to be an abstract form of human beings pushed into each other and condensed. The dark purple background pushes these out of the canvas like they’re overflowing and cannot be contained within the painting. It is as though these figures are forming a hivemind, and the figures that climb above the others enforce an order despite some looking as though they are attempting to leave the canvas. This represents the feeling of individuality yet being restricted and falling into the order of the society that is enforced by the modern nation-state.”

• Art Style: Abstract
• Art Medium : Acrylic
• Size and orientation: Vertical
• Dimensions (cm): Height- 70.00, Width- 50.00, Depth- 4.00
• Colour: Black, Purple
• Price: AED 24000