Human Figure (part of the Being series, Early 2000s)

By Ahmad Zakii Anwar

Image of the charcoal sketch (Human Figure sketch picture, n.d.)

This is an art work in perhaps one of Zakii’s most prominent series’, the Being series, where he uses charcoal to accurately sketch out his representations of human figures. In majority of the artworks of this series, the faces are either blurred or completely turned away, such as the one above. Zakii involves the audience in the constant search for human identity by obscuring the figures’ faces, invoking a sense of frustration when trying out to rationalise the actual identities (Negotiations within the ‘Self’ and ‘Identity’, 2009).

References

Negotiations within the ‘self’ and ‘identity’. (2009). Retrieved from http://arteri.search-art.asia/2009/08/06/negotiations-within-the-%E2%80%98self%E2%80%99-and-%E2%80%98identity%E2%80%99/

Human Figure [Image] (n.d.). Retrieved from http://artweek.la/upload/2654/ArtweekLA-3.jpg