KARACHI: When artists begin to play mind games, art assumes a bit just a bit of a scientific position. It doesn`t negate any established ideas, rather makes art itself all the more interesting for a layman. People have always harbored the thought that art and science are polar opposites.

Here, by the way, the subject is `mind games` not science.

A three-person show, which concluded on Friday at the Full Circle Gallery, titled Made in {} falls into that category. Its title is inviting enough, isn`t it? But once you step into the gallery space, the three participants whose works are on view Jennifer Rae Forsythe, Paul Mehdi Rizvi and Shireen Ikramullah Khan will give you cogent reasons to associate the rubric with what`s been produced by them.

The clue is in the curly brackets, {}. Normally, they are used for mathematical purposes indicating, the repetition of a number or pattern. The phrase `made in` on the other hand signifies manu-facturing, which also has largely to do with a pattern.

All three artists write their statements using the same bracket. Let`s just reproduce the first lines of their thoughts here. Jennifer says, `This body of work explores the uneasy space between beauty and disaster.

Shireen is of the view, `I have created contemporary abstract self-portrait as an expression of collaborative self-reflection and in homage to the uncertainty of life.

And Paul opines, `My advantage of being an artist trained in electronic media as well as commercial artlies in the discipline of understanding precedence, assimilation and design, in order to more completely theorise and manuf acture work.

How intriguing. Notice the near binaries, almost like dichotomies, that they come up with underlining their personal quests to get the hang of that riddle called life. Hence, words such as `beauty`, `disaster`, `uncertainty`, `theory`, `commerce` and `work` are invoked to make sense of the world through creative journeys. With such an intense motive, the art that is put on display is bound to wow the viewer with its multiplicity of concepts and intricacy of techniques. It does. Examples: `Mint Cadillac`, `Dialects` and `Ethos`.

Fascinating material!