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Reminiscent of the constructivist idealism of Rodchenko and Malevich, Syed’s paintings attract through bright transparencies and crisp colours, while their flatness proposes a surface to push against and to uncover. Employing a compositional device of a band of black or solid colour positioned at the bottom of the canvas, the paintings simultaneously obscure and reveal an unseen spectacle. This compositional strategy divides the canvas and proposes oppositional pictorial readings of infinite depth and two-dimensional flatness.

The stage, at once a hierarchical system that presents …