Interview | Aqeel Abbas: “Neuroaesthetics changed my thinking. It drew me to the biological foundations of perception and prompted me to try scientific methods for artistic problems, regardless of how they compare to older ways”
Photo by R.M. Naeem Citește interviul în română The recent visit to the exhibition “The Shifting Gaze” at Celula de Artă, signed by Aqeel Abbas, functioned as a direct extension of the ideas articulated in this interview: a space in which “home” no longer appears as a fixed point, but as an unstable state shaped by movement, memory, and experience. Our conversation confirms that, for the artist, the idea of “home” is deeply influenced by the history of migration, by the personal experience of displacement, and by the tension between places. “Home” thus becomes a continuous process, an emotional and...