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12/12/2003

See no Evil, Hear no Evil, Speak no Evil

CRG Gallery, New York

Shah Jahan, Natasja Kensmil & Sara Van Der Heide
Curated by Marlene Dumas

I had the privilege to work with these 3 young artists when they studied at de Ateliers in Amsterdam. I think they’re serious, intense and even funny and they should be seen as well as heard as soon as possible. – Marlene Dumas

SHAH JAHAN
1976, Sylhet, Bangladesh
Lives and works in Birmingham

Although it looks as though Shah Jahan has embraced popular culture, his paintings of pizza couriers and family gatherings have a sinister intensity that is diametrically opposed to the consumer bliss of Pop Art. The photos on which they are based seem to have been broken open to expose hidden meanings.Jahan's snapshots of an Anglo-Asian community are marked by infelicities and translation errors that have a magical quality. They are often assembled to form sequences that are a painterly reply to the film-loop.

NATASJA KENSMIL
1973, Amsterdam
Lives and works in Amsterdam

Alarming subjects loom up from the thick layers of paint in Natasja Kensmil's paintings. It is as though the figures are situated behind the surface of the painting. They are nightmares, as dark and menacing as the black paintings of Goya, but at the same time these horrible orgies of destruction are an exorcism of a real fear of extreme right-wing violence and increasing nationalism.

SARA VAN DER HEIDE
1977, Pusan, South-Korea
Lives and works in Amsterdam

Sara van der Heide's paintings display a strong psychological intensity. Sometimes it is as though the protagonists have ended up in their own delusions, at other times they are like aliens in their own familiar environment. In the glowing colors of the paintings, figure and ground constantly compete for attention. In her ink drawings, mysterious images of distant, calm places surface in the many shadows.

Text written by Dominic Van Den Boogerd

CRG GALLERY 535 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011

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