Kamran Babrak
Kamran Babrak (b.1980) is an artist, entrepreneur and art and design educationist.
He received a Master of Fine Arts in Jewellery and Corpus from Ädellab, Konstfack, Stockholm, and Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from National College of Arts, Lahore.
He works with interdisciplinary approach in the fields of sculpture, ceramics and jewellery. His work addresses the problems of everyday life, people generally either tend to eschew or are reluctant to address. He tries to develop an understanding and reflects back on the issues of post-colonial society of South Asia through his work.
His corpus work explores the possibilities of developing new meanings and interpretations of corpus and objects in the field of contemporary art and craft.
Babrak has exhibited nationally and internationally. He has participated in first and second Metal Art Biennale in Vilnius Lithania in 2014 and 2016 respectively, first Lahore biennale in 2018, and Islamabad Art Festival 2019.
He is a founding member of art organisation 12.0 Contemporary and artist in residence program Project12.0 in Islamabad. He has taught design methodology, design history and theory and has served as founding head of Ceramic and Glass Design Department at Pakistan Institute of Fashion and Design Lahore.
Harmonics Series
This series of work aims to create objects from natural materials using universal harmonics to augment the functional or qualitative value of form and material - objects. This project attempts to emphasise the importance of such objects in our daily life that are built in natural materials employing harmonic values.
Nature is fundamentally made of harmonic values in weaved together harmony. The intended work corresponds to interconnectedness between humans and nature, on the basis of qualities as part of the natural system. Apart from many, the gift humans already have as makers and the gift nature provides us in form of materials, universal codes and language. This relationship has become ever important in the emerging age of artificial intelligence, synthetic materiality and augmented realities. Humanity stands at the critical crossroad between synthetic and natural. The quality of time highlights the importance of addressing the questions for future direction - to make appropriate choice between cohabitation and comorbidities, between peace and chaos, between unification and division.
The harmonic objects correspond to human cognitions and senses those are integral part of humans as part of cosmic family . Harmonic objects offer its interactors a triggering point to reach out
the portal of knowledge based on extra sensory perceptions beyond five sences.
Harmony and harmonic, as defined by the Britannica World Standard Dictionary:
1. Harmony: a state of order, agreement or completeness in the relation of things of parts of a whole to each other.
3. Harmonic: producing, characterised by or pertaining to harmony. Harmonics integral fundamental calculations at which universal forms, structures systems are and can be designed for optimal function.
Intended Outcome: Corpus and functional objects
Materials: Natural stones - Quartz crystals, Fluorite, Nephrite, Onyx, Limestone, Granite, Basalt, Marbles
Metals: Brass, Copper, Silver, Copper ore and Iron ore.