"My whole purpose of taking on miniature painting……" — Shahzia Sikander
"My whole purpose of taking on miniature painting was to break the tradition, to experiment with it, to find new ways of making meaning, to question the relevance of it."
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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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Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens.…
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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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