"Initially I explored the tension between illustration and……" — Shahzia Sikander
"Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the formal aspects of the Indo-Persian miniature-painting genre has often been at the core of my practice."
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Shahzia Sikander
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8 Quotes by Shahzia Sikander
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I think context, location matters a lot. Because location obviously in my situation, it's the space in which the work…
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Talking with other artists is an incredible process. You engage with the work very differently...a nd different relationships between different…
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I'm interested in taking a form, breaking it apart, and then rebuilding it. It is about transformation for me...it is…
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I was very, very quiet. I was always a loner, hardly spoke, and I was quite a nerd in school.…
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In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.
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For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing…
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My whole purpose of taking on miniature painting was to break the tradition, to experiment with it, to find new…
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