Jammu and Kashmir hosts unique poetry, art exhibition to promote Sufism

Javed Iqbal, a creative artist, told ANI, “This project was pending for the past two years and now it’s finally completed. My main aim was that our poetry has so much potential and it has the same essence as it had 300 years ago. So I thought all the work of the famous poets are available in many references, let’s bring that work into visual forms.”

“The main purpose to make it into visual form was to make it in a duo, so that is why it is titled 'Textural and Textual Conference,' a combination of painting and poetry, to be presented visually so that our future generations could remember that our poets had so much potential. Because if we forget our roots then we can’t grow,” he added.

Naushad Gayoor, Organizer of the event told ANI, ” Javed sir was working on this series for the past two years and this type of work hasn’t been performed in the past. We took the couplets from legendary poets from the past and created a combination of both art forms because literature and painting both are a part of fine arts. So we mixed visuals and texts to produce something unique.”

In conversation with ANI, an Art Student, Mir Andleep, said, “Such festivals are very important, because we feel that apart from our art, Sufism should also be promoted. There are very few people who are aware of our art, so it’s a good platform for all artists to showcase their talent, and for the audience to gather more knowledge about art and Sufism."