Things Felt But Not Quite Expressed collects Sohrab Hura’s kinetic illustrations made between 2022 and 2024 of everyday scenes of love, joy, family, and relationships. Renowned for his self-published photographic books, here Hura departs from the fixedness of the photographic form, using technicolour soft pastel to imbue his portraits, still lifes, and quotidian scenes with fluidity and to charge them with feeling. We see tender portraits of ailing family members, vivid sunsets and free-flowing bodies of water, mischievous pets and siblings, spectral figures meeting in unrefined landscapes, and surreal cremation rites. Portraits of isolation and illness are interleaved with recreated memes and convivial tableaux. The sardonic titles of the works collude with the viewer to poke fun at the drawings’ subjects but also at the artist himself, creating an intimate viewing experience.
These works originated in a period in which the artist felt unable to connect with the permanency of photographs. Pivoting to drawing enabled him to capture the whimsy and ephemerality of everyday life within an increasingly polarised world. This playful tone is extended by the book’s mix of impressionist and surrealist style, making for an unpredictable volume which experiments with how to evoke and immortalise feeling through art.
Specification
First edition
Publisher: MACK
Published: 2024
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Size: 7.1 x 11.8 inches (180 x 300 mm)
Shipping
Please note that all orders are subject to any applicable local duties and taxes imposed by the destination country based on where the item is being shipped from.
Where possible these charges will be calculated and applied at the checkout and are the responsibility of the purchaser.
Prints:All prints are shipped flat, separately from other items in your order.
Framed Prints:Framed prints will ship packed in bubble wrap and a sturdy box, separately from other items in your order.Please allow an extra three weeks for delivery of all framed items.
Posters:All posters are shipped rolled in a tube, separately from other items in your order.
Framed Posters: Framed posters will ship carefully packed in bubble wrap and a sturdy box, separately from other items in your order.
Please allow an extra three weeks for delivery of all framed items.
Kindly be aware that this item will be shipped from the United States and is subject to any applicable duties and taxes imposed by the destination country. These charges will be calculated and applied at the checkout and are the responsibility of the purchaser.
