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Exhibition catalogue ENIGMA documenting Sayed Fida Hossain's first solo exhibition, presented by ARTcon at the EMK Center, Dhaka, from 16 to 28 July 2016.

The exhibition brings together a body of paintings through which Fida Hossain investigates the complexities of human existence, consciousness and the inner self. At the centre of his artistic inquiry is a triangulation of body, mind and spirit, which he understands collectively as the soul of a human being. His works explore the tensions inherent within this existence—the struggle between good and evil, the mechanical structures of everyday life, consciousness and unconsciousness, beauty and death.

Fida describes his practice as a process of silent self-exploration. Through faces, masks, figures and psychologically charged forms, his paintings become spaces for examining the relationship between external existence and an inner self that can become obscured by the routines and mechanisms of contemporary life. The artist's search for what he calls humanity emerges through intellectual reflection and an awareness of consciousness, transforming personal introspection into a broader meditation on human experience.