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.
Kinda Adly has been a valued part of the Safarkhan family of artists since 2019. We cherish every opportunity to launch a young artist, and this is one that has been long in the works. Adly lives and paints in Zurich, where she has had many of her works featured with local galleries. It is with great pride and relief that she is finally able to boldly announce her artistic presence in her homeland, this September 29 to October 18. It is 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 is one that 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, which she superimposes her pop art tapestries onto, 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 exemplify 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.
