Exhibition: Metamorphosis
When: Monday, February 2, 2026, 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Where: BLOC Gallery, ArtsOne Building, Mile End
A human being is born in darkness and discovers their true self in the light. In the Illumination school of thought (Ishrāq), a person's ontological status is tied to the amount of light they receive. The more light they receive, the higher their status becomes. To gain more light, they have to traverse seven cities of love, where at the end, they are annihilated in light of lights, the God.
In this exhibition, the reflection of this concept has been the focus of the work. An attempt has been made to use photographic and videographic techniques to depict people in
the darkness, depicted as normally as possible, while the individual exposed to light loses their human form and metamorphoses into deformed, beast-like beings.