I Want You To Stay With Me
2013
Installation, variable dimensions.
Materials: paint onto the floor, paper
Collection: Courtesy of the artist and Corvi-Mora, London.
The exhibition at M HKA includes two installations by Qureshi based on his recent technique of expanding the miniature aesthetic into a spatial practice. I Want You To Stay With Me is a painting installation produced in-situ. Qureshi produced these sets of paintings on the floor, splashing red paint, and then working more intricate details into the image. The paintings are then positioned on the wall, with the trace of his painting remaining on the ground beneath. Combining chance with control, the work is simultaneously representational and non-representational, balancing beauty and repulsion, wishing metaphorically to find optimism out of the effects of catastrophe. (NH)