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In a recent exhibition catalog, Owais Hussain writes, "The largest struggle we are witnessing today is not between conflicting moral beliefs, between the legal system and individual freedom, between nature and human technology; it is between our inner and outer lives, and our bodies are the area where this belief is being played out. It is the old philosophical 'mind-body' problem coming to a crescendo as an ecological drama where the outcome... In a recent exhibition catalog, Owais Hussain writes, "The largest struggle we are witnessing today is not between conflicting moral beliefs, between the legal system and individual freedom, between nature and human technology; it is between our inner and outer lives, and our bodies are the area where this belief is being played out. It is the old philosophical 'mind-body' problem coming to a crescendo as an ecological drama where the outcome rests not only upon our realization that the natural physical environment is one and the same as our bodies, but that nature itself is a form of mind.

"The individual breaks the boundary of his skin and occupies the other side of his senses. He tries to look at himself from any point whatever of space. He feels himself becoming space... He is similar, not similar to something, but just similar. And he invents spaces of which he is the 'convulsive possession'.

"The only person who considers that crisis is endemic to the human being is Sigmund Freud, who says our hell is the unconscious, and that beneath our apparent placidity is an extremely problematic and abysmal being. For Freud these states of being are subjacent, are constantly with us."

Born in Mumbai, Owais Hussain received a B.A. in Painting from the Sir J.J. School of Arts. Since then he has participated in a number of group exhibitions at galleries around Mumbai, and at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.

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