'Half is one and one is full… A state of living between being and non-being, dense and ghostly.'
In his solo exhibition Half bodies of a full circle, Ehsan Ul Haq explores a world of fragmented bodies bound to the circularity of time.
As if remembering their once-perfected state, mutilated halves now hang in a limbo. Stranded and located, they are seen searching for trails that can justify their odd existence. Contemplating and questioning, have the other halves vanished, or evaporated, or perhaps they found their way outside the circle?
In this new body of works, Haq has created ceramic sculptures that form a bizarre constellation of objects and images. Based between Amsterdam and Lahore, the artist works with sculptural forms that question their own inherent content, making, and objecthood.
They are stripped from their histories, functionality, and context, engaging the viewer with a new guidebook of perceptions and meanings.
Ehsan Ul Haq (1983, Lahore, Pakistan), lives and works between Lahore and Amsterdam. Between 2015 en 2015 he was a resident at De Rijksacademie voor beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. Recently Haq participated in the Islamic Art Biennal in Jedda (2025) and in the Lahore Biennal Third Edition (Memory Orbits, with Iqra Tanveer) in 2024.