Shahzia Sikanderさんのイラストまとめ

“For Sikander, this visual struggle signifies the complications and limitations of hyphenated labels: Pakistani-American, Muslim-American—the hyphen both a barrier and a bridge between myriad identities, implying multiple vantage points” @JesusCollegeCam

as they grapple with the contradictions of religious beliefs, marriage, gender & culture. In naming the mosaic Zarina, Sikander enters the psychology of an archetype, rechanneling it & bringing it to life” @JesusCollegeCam @Cambridge_Uni

Excited to launch the Khilvat Series, an ongoing group of paintings and drawings in dialogue with the @FitzMuseum_UK album of erotic Indian paintings, to explore the meanings of privacy, visibility, and accessibility #promiscuousintimacies

Here I painted over my meticulously crafted traditional composition. “Sunlike red flames extend to the sheet’s edges, creating a new image that feels both celebratory & destructive, drawing attention to and obliterating the central couple.” @MorganLibrary

It functioned as a battleground for different ideologies at times of crisis—staged unveilings in French Algeria, with women choosing not to wear it, as per their own will, or choosing to wear it, as in the 1970s in Egypt, as a sign of rejection of Western consumerism

On view-Portrait of the Artist(2016) A Portfolio of 4 etchings in collaboration with Breath of Miraj by @ayadakhtar part of a spotlight on iconic portfolios published by @paceprints (works by Jenny Holzer, Robert Mangold, Vik Muniz, Wangechi Mutu,Ed Ruscha & Shahzia Sikander)

Because so much is in the detail... @MorganLibrary #extraordinaryrealities

Cycles and Transitions-1995
I made this painting responding to my inability to locate Brown South-Asian representation in the feminist space in 1990s art-history books..The monolithic category ‘third-world feminism’ felt offensive & limiting

Contemporary Manuscript Painting & Bronze Sculpture- interdisciplinary and interlinked- culling out the female protagonists from my 2001 ptg to create #promiscuousintimacies a response to Eurocentric art histories. On view @MorganLibrary #Pride2021

I got a chance to talk with the illustrator and co author about how ‘Roots and Wings: How Shahzia Sikander Became an Artist’ came about. Read more in MoMA magazine
https://t.co/f4eWZbbt53 Initially I was asked to write the text for the book myself