Thanks to everyone who visited us at Independent and engaged with Sameen Agha’s remarkable New York debut!
It was an amazing week!
Thanks to Artnet and Art Viewer for the features 💙 Links in bio
Sameen Agha
Placeless place, 2025
Marble and metal
8 x 19 x 6 in | 20.3 x 48.2 x 15.2 cm
& 20 x 3 x 3 in | 50.8 x 7.6 x 7.6 cm
@sameenaghastudio@independent_hq
Introducing our esteemed judges for The Sovereign Asian Art Prize, 2025!
𝗛𝗮𝗲𝗷𝘂 𝗞𝗶𝗺, Senior Curator and Head of Residencies at Singapore Art Museum.
𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳. 𝗗𝗿. 𝗔𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗵𝘆𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮, Chief Executive and Artistic Director of Bangkok Art Biennale.
𝗦𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗴𝗵𝗮, Artist, The 2024 Grand Prize Winner.
𝗗𝗿. 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗺 𝗟𝗶𝗺, Honorary Doctor of Arts and Sciences.
𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗘𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝘁𝘁, Writer, Curator and Museum Director.
We are very grateful to our judges for dedicating their time to support the 21st year of The Sovereign Asian Art Prize.
Stay tuned for more updates.
#SAAP2025
“Rather than simply a form of emotional catharsis, the physicality of my work—especially carving marble—symbolises the transformation of aggression into softness. Each piece I carve, though born from rigorous and forceful motions, ultimately emerges with a gentle, rounded quality. This process represents the idea that something shaped by intensity can also result in calm and tenderness. In my studio, the act of sculpting is like finding balance amidst chaos,” Sameen Agha tells SC.
On view at @IndigoPlusMadder , London until 21 September 2024, the Lahore-based artist’s exhibition ‘Catalyst’ features new installations, drawings, and sculptures exploring metamorphosis. Learn more on somethingcurated.com.
📷: Sameen Agha, ‘Everytime I look for you’, 2024. Courtesy the Artist and Indigo+Madder
Please join us for the opening of Sameen Agha’s first international solo exhibition Catalyst.
Thursday 25th July
6-8 PM
Followed by drinks at The Seven Stars!
Agha’s work explores the emotional landscape of the home while considering its social and physical attributes as they intersect with gender and self-identity. Working through her personal experience and memory, the works confront the complexities of loss, belonging and remembrance.
Agha works across sculpture, painting and installation. Her recent series My house on fire and Home is a terrible place to love grapple with a sense of contained destruction, as her works invite viewers to contemplate, in a paradoxical sense, the comfort and safety of domestic life against the potential for upheaval or discord. She uses materials often employed in the construction of homes and gravestones such as marble, metal and wood; casting, carving and finishing them by hand to retain gestures of touch and memory. Agha works extensively with Nowshera pink marble, which is solid and imposing, yet pliable in texture. Its unique hues and patterns, reminiscent of bruised skin, evoke themes of agony and remembrance. The works utilise the interplay between strength and fragility, permanence and impermanence, to interrogate the meaning and experience of home.
Agha lives and works in Lahore. She is the recipient of the Sovereign Asian Art Prize 2024
