Untitled: Furqan Javed

Furqan Jawed is a graphic designer interested in the semantics of everyday visual media and creates work that celebrates the quotidian and mundane while questioning accepted conventions, often in the form of exaggeration or satire.

The artist’s interventions in the public washrooms are a conceptual triptych running across the three toilets on each floor (male, female and common/gender inclusive) and question the semantics of performing intimate acts in public space and the politics of gender around such spaces. Stylising the washrooms with his distinctive collages and text, Furqan also plays with different objects, thematically exploring how architectural partitions knowingly/unknowingly define the notions of gender and sexuality, and also reflects on the obsession with beautifying toilets.