Shah Jahan

by Dominic van den Boogerd, Judith de Bruijn

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Author(s)

Dominic van den Boogerd, Judith de Bruijn

Publication, year

Den Haag : Parts Project, 2018

Scope

64 Pages, illustrated, 21 cm.

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Bangladeshi-British artist Shah Jahan (b. 1976, Sylhet, Bangladesh; d. 2015, Birmingham, UK) was convinced that art possessed a transformative quality, and he envisioned a position for himself at the centre of society. He strove to make a kind of art he called “personal pop”: it was close to mass culture, like pop, but at the same time completely personal. He availed himself of popular media imagery as well as private photographs, used low-cost materials, produced a significant volume of work, and mixed the personal with the universal, the charming with the political, and the glamorous with the raw.

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Person as subject

Shah Jahan

Location

Cabinet 4 - 3: Kunstenaars