SOULPRINT by Kinda Adly - art exhibition
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SOULPRINT by Kinda Adly - art exhibition
While Adly’s art is decidedly in its own niche stylistically, which has always been the essence of its unmistakable contemporaneous zeal, she has now developed an exemplary appetite for evolution and transformation. This maturity of spirit and practice is on full display and mirrors her own personal coming-of-age journey. It has seen her leap from a girl’s wide-eyed days to that of an ambitious young woman, devoted wife, nurturing mother, and empowered artist, making sense of this frenzied world by enveloping herself in her own hyper-personalized act of painting.
This, with a collection befitting of the toilsome time and emotional spectrum, as numerous as the myriad details, pigments, and textures in her vibrant pop art fusion, that she has faithfully poured into her art. The dichotomy of the treasured experience of motherhood contrasted with the heartache from the recent bereavement of her father, who was instrumental in Adly pursuing her dreams, has produced a collection where Kinda’s art can stand alone at last, to speak and indeed sing, her complete artistic language in its effervescent form. It is the culmination of a fortuitous leap of faith, a passion turned profession, signifying the promise of youthful individualism and the undying message to always follow one's own heart.
While Adly’s art is decidedly in its own niche stylistically, which has always been the essence of its unmistakable contemporaneous zeal, she has now developed an exemplary appetite for evolution and transformation. This maturity of spirit and practice is on full display and mirrors her own personal coming-of-age journey. It has seen her leap from a girl’s wide-eyed days to that of an ambitious young woman, devoted wife, nurturing mother, and empowered artist, making sense of this frenzied world by enveloping herself in her own hyper-personalized act of painting. Initially inspired by the Japanese super-flat concept of drawing, a postmodernist movement based on the widely popular Manga and Anime art forms, Adly infuses this with her own interpretation, drawing upon variegated pop culture references sourced from her internationally influenced upbringing. Adly’s works navigate a captivating architecture of memories, emotions, and imagination, inviting viewers to lose themselves in the beautified chaos and poetry of visual storytelling.
The intricately worked amalgamations of figurative detailing are the focal underpinning of Kinda’s art, and this is complemented by her impressive strides into new territories. In many respects, this accomplished versatility becomes the central showcase of her first solo endeavor. Adly now emphasizes vivid, dynamic backgrounds of varying iterations, onto which she superimposes her pop art tapestries, creating striking visual configurations. She also tries her hand at far larger dimensions, excelling at them using the aforementioned technique of background and foreground interplay and layering. An unorthodox method of torn and holed canvas works exemplifies Kinda’s insatiable thirst for ingenuity and the allure of the unconventional. Finally, an enticing foray into her very own, entirely abstract nature of painting is promising enough to potentially become a mainstay of her future enterprise. Each canvas in ‘Soulprint’ is thus a piece of Adly’s heart and soul that she leaves behind, imprinted on canvas, turning the emotional into something tangible, the ephemeral into something permanent.
Born in 1989 in Cairo, Kinda Adly is a self-taught artist currently residing and working in Switzerland. After completing her higher education in finance with a brief career in marketing, it was Kinda’s persistent passion for art that caused her to fully embrace painting as a new career path. Adly’s artistic process involves a protracted preparative process into exploring a variety of artistic techniques which she then adapts to her dynamic personal vision in her work.
One of the key initial inspirations for Adly’s unique painting style was the Japanese super-flat concept of drawing, a postmodernist movement based on the widely popular Manga and Anime art forms in Japanese pop culture. Adly combines these elements with variegated pop culture references which she draws from the many locations across the globe that she has been inspired by (including but not limited to America, Britain and of course her native Egypt). Adly’s art is beloved for the layering technique she employs, which combines and contrasts bright and effervescent colors using multiple mediums.
With a vibrant and eclectic palette, replete with pop art elements, caricatures and motifs, Adly combines these features with abstract backgrounds to create dynamic explorations and portrayals of the complex interdependencies of cosmopolitan life, which animate the urban metropolises that influence her work. Kinda Adly joined the Safarkhan family of artists in 2019 and has participated internationally in exhibitions in Zurich and Athens.
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