Silence and Noise is a collection of drawings by Mohamed Ikram. The drawings are intimately personal. At the same time, they are snapshots of the everyday life in Malè, the congested capital of the Maldives.
Drawing is a form of storytelling. A time-telling. Ikram thinks through drawing: contemplatively on notebooks, assertively on large sheets of paper, experimentally on an iPad. Drawing for Ikram is a way to process the personal, the local, and the global. In this age of information, each diffuses into the other, and Ikram’s keen awareness to the complexity of this relationship of networks is evident in this work.
This story, created in 2020 through 2022 takes us from suffocation to meditation, from a global pandemic to uncertainty, from societal psychospace to political arrogance, and from silence to loud.
Silence and Noise is a documentation of an intense, extended period of unknown.
