Pilar Corrias Gallery London: Shahzia Sikander solo exhibition

Solo exhibition Shahzia Sikander: Indo-Persian miniature painting radically re-interpreted

Indo-Persian miniature painting meets avant-garde - Pakistani-born Shahzia Sikander recontextualizes the tradition-rich art of painting and shows this in the entire range from drawings to animations to installations. Pilar Corrias Gallery in London, which represents her, is dedicating a solo show to her from October 12 to November 12, 2021.

October 11, 2021
ShahziaSikander, Sub Blues, 2019-2020, Ink and gouache on paper Paper
Courtesy of the artist and Pilar Corrias, London
Sub Blues, 2019-2020, Ink and gouache on paper, 250.2x 132.1 cm, 98 1/2 x52 in

The contemporary gallery Pilar Corrias in London presents a solo exhibition of the artist Shahzia Sikander from October 12 to November 13, 2021. It will take place in the original exhibition space, on Eastcastle Street in the London neighborhood of Fitzrovia. On display will be paintings, drawings, animations, and mosaics, and thus the full range of the artist's diverse oeuvre. Shahzia Sikander is known for infusing Central and South Asian pre-modernist writing practices with avant-garde disruption, deconstructing archetypal narratives about femininity, ethnicity, memory and migration.  

Shahzia Sikander was born in 1969 in Lahore, Pakistan - she now lives and works in New York. She learned miniaturism at the National College of Arts in Lahore and developed an experimental approach to the radical reinterpretation of her very own miniature paintings. Meanwhile, her portfolio includes paintings, drawings, animations, installations, and video and film art. In all media, elements of her recontextualization of Indo-Persian miniature painting can be found.Art.Salon

ShahziaSikander, TBC, 2021 TBC
Courtesy of the artist and Pilar Corrias, London
Shahzia Sikander, Title: TBC, 2021 TBC, 152.4 x132.1 cm, 60 x52 in

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