Sha Sarwari: Silent Conversation

Overview

Sha Sarwari is a visual artist who came to Australia as a refugee. He arrived from Afghanistan in 1999 and graduated from The Queensland College of Art last year. His art is rich, symbolic and biographical. "It is my way of understanding my experience,” he tells Quest Community Newspaper. And his latest solo exhibition at Jugglers Art Space is a pure, deep and moving depiction of peace and freedom from one of Brisbane's most achieved personal expressionists.

Silent Conversation explores the notion of the found object and reinterprets it into multilayered poetic narratives. It gives comment on social and political issues, such as asylum seekers and refugees in Australia, as well showcasing an intuitive means of sculpture. From a barbed wire hammock to a boat made of newspapers, Sarwari's projects present a hard truth that is difficult to digest, even in art form.

Opening night for Silent Conversation is April 10 at 6pm, where you'll be able to meet and hear from the artist with a thousand stories. The exhibition will only be open to the public until April 15 by appointment.