MATDOT Art Center presents Linear Text of Delirious Time 2, an exhibition by Bangladeshi artist Nisar Hossain. The exhibition brings together a body of paintings that probe the condition of the contemporary world through a visual language that is at once intense and unstable.
In this series, Hossain renders a moment defined by turbulence, confusion, and delirium—a world that no longer appears to operate according to reason or order. Displaced humans and animals, environmental devastation, international conflicts, and a form of capitalism that steadily consumes ways of life are densely interwoven within a single pictorial field. Figures morph and hybridise: humans transform into animals, while animals assume human traits, enacting seemingly aimless activities that evoke a profound disorientation. These scenes reflect a blurring of identity and rationality characteristic of our present condition. Executed in frenetic lines of acrylic on deep black canvases, the compositions unfold like a vivid yet unsettling spectacle—a chromatic tragedy emerging from within darkness.
Linear Text of Delirious Time 2 is a continuation of the artist’s earlier exhibition of the same title, first presented in 2017. Nearly a decade later, the sense of “delirium” that permeates the global condition has not subsided; rather, it has intensified with striking urgency. The works in this exhibition thus operate as a mirror to the contemporary world—at times extreme, even surreal, yet uncannily aligned with the psychological realities that shape our inner lives.
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