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Surya Anwar
Singapore
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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Unmounted artwork. Mounting and/or framing available on request.
- Dimensions : 15.7x11.8in
About this artwork
Expecting presents a surreal image — a pregnant man — using an impossible scenario to explore creation, responsibility, and the future.
Pregnancy is traditionally tied to women and birth. By transferring it onto a male figure, I push the conversation beyond gender, toward what it means to carry, nurture, and bring something new into being. I exaggerated the body to make it a metaphor for unseen burdens and possibilities: the dreams, ambitions, and… futures we each carry. Like a pregnancy, these invisible creations need patience, care, and time before they emerge.
The figure looks humorous, slightly absurd, but beneath the playful surface I wanted a sense of anticipation.
Rather than depicting pregnancy literally, with Expecting I reflect on the universal experience of nurturing potential and waiting for transformation — inviting viewers to consider what they're currently carrying: ideas, hopes, fears, or aspirations.
Pregnancy is traditionally tied to women and birth. By transferring it onto a male figure, I push the conversation beyond gender, toward what it means to carry, nurture, and bring something new into being. I exaggerated the body to make it a metaphor for unseen burdens and possibilities: the dreams, ambitions, and… futures we each carry. Like a pregnancy, these invisible creations need patience, care, and time before they emerge.
The figure looks humorous, slightly absurd, but beneath the playful surface I wanted a sense of anticipation.
Rather than depicting pregnancy literally, with Expecting I reflect on the universal experience of nurturing potential and waiting for transformation — inviting viewers to consider what they're currently carrying: ideas, hopes, fears, or aspirations.
Surya Anwar
Singapore
Suliya Ainiwaer is a Uyghur painter and visual artist with classical oil painting training from Xinjiang Arts University. She merges gestural, expressive brushwork with tactile impasto techniques and bold, daring colors, balancing disciplined structure with contemporary abstraction centered on the human face—especially the eye. Her evocative compositions create a charged space of emotional longing, probing the mysteries of identity and conveying the haunting distance between the visible self and the inner life that can never be fully known.
Surya Anwar
Expecting
$940
