The Coningsby Gallery is pleased to present:
Aisha Cahn
Unity
27 February 2023 – 11 March 2023
30 Tottenham Street, London, W1T 4RJ

Aisha Cahn’s work has consistently explored the realms of spirituality, science and philosophy. The focus of Cahn’s practice has often been on our connection to forces that transcend the human experience and our relationship with God and the cosmos. As a result of this, Cahn has become increasingly concerned with the division that has emerged in the world we live in, and her approach to her current artwork has evolved in light of this.

She feels this world has become so polarised and that ordinary human beings, are being dictated by the most corrupt heads of states. Each one possessing more power, control, greed and desiring to be the most powerful nation in the world.

To achieve this, they all have one commonality. To create, innovate, manufacture, import and export the biggest and the most lethal weapons of mass destruction; be it atomic, chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear (CBRN) weapons. All of these with devastating effects during war. The only result of these wars is the death of hundreds and thousands of innocent civilians.

It is mentioned in all the worlds sacred scriptures, “Thou shalt not kill”, and yet, these corrupt heads of states are determined to use these WMDs at the expense of killing and destroying their fellow human beings in order to fulfil their greed for power and control.

This series of work titled UNITY, conveys a message of putting a stop to unnecessary wars at the expense of innocent human civilians, who are like pawns on a chess board.

For this series, Cahn has created two installations of light boxes; one being a large chessboard; and the other with a black and white film projected over it, featuring a compilation of war footage.In addition, Cahn has created some paintings representing silhouettes of tanks, fighter planes and AK 47s. She has also created some assemblages, whereby three dimensional collages are created with found objects to a two dimensional surface.

“If I wanted, I could have made you all one nation” – Quran 5:48

But we are many nations and we are to learn from each other’s languages, cultures and traditions and to live harmoniously. Not create divisions and hatred amongst each other.

An interesting observation – an animal will only kill for survival.