The Portraits, 2012 Lahore, Pakistan The Portraits with or without a chair. Related Artworks Social Sculpture, 2019 Lahore, Pakistan First Cell, 2014 Moscow, Russia Abel & Qabil (Cain & Abel), 2014 Moscow, Russia
The Green Screen, 2012 Lahore, Pakistan In 2012, exploration led me to a chair—an object that became a canvas for countless ideas later. Rather than fixating on video techniques, I multiplied the chair’s significance through interaction. The green screen, typically used by videographers, faded into the background as I delved into the chair’s essence. “The […]
Social Sculpture IV, 2020 Museum of Contemporary Art, Wroclaw, Poland Social sculpture IV print imagined on the framed wall of the Museum of Contemporary Art. This unrealized installation concept inspired by German artist Joseph Beuys, which is to leave a transformational impact in public space. Tayyab’s interpretation of this concept critiques how mass media creates […]
Social Sculpture V, 2020 Wroclaw, Poland Social sculpture is a series of works led by the concept introduced by the artist Joseph Beuys, which describes an expanded vision of art. Beuys coined the term “social sculpture” to reflect his belief in art’s potential to bring about societal transformation. Social sculpture, as Beuys envisioned it, encompasses […]
Allegory of the Cave, 2021 Wroclaw, Poland Tayyab Tariq intervenes with his own understanding of the Allegory of the Cave by critiquing how politicians and their political statements distort and manipulate messages presented to the public. Instead of correcting themselves when caught in a misleading or false narrative, these systems often distort the original message […]
From the Cross to the Stage, 2022 Berlin, Germany The work is inspired by the writing by Esther Fernández so the explanation & the title were borrowed from “From the Cross to the Stage: Divine Puppets and Spectacular Saints in Spanish Culture” a scholarly article by Esther Fernández. In this work, Fernández explores the fascinating […]
Topophila, 2021 Berlin, Germany Topophilia is a strong sense of place, which often becomes mixed with the sense of cultural identity among certain people and a love of certain aspects of such a place. Topophilia is the revelation and the emotional connection between man and the surrounding, environment and efface the phenomenological barriers between the […]