Print size: 19.0 x 17.0 in. / 48.3 x 43.2 cm. Paper size: 23.2 x 25.5 in. / 58.9 x 64.8 cm.
medium
Serigraph on paper
Zarina Hashmi converted technique into the focal point of her work, the outcome of a multi-layered process that she mastered. The viewer is left to interpret the work from her own perspective; the geometric shapes and textures relate to our everyday lives while grounded in sentiment. Hashmi’s work is an ode to space—whether home, city or country, and her minimal lexicon has a maximal impact in the feelings with which it is wrought or communicated. The sharp lines in this work act as barriers, blocking our sight and our access—whether to a homeland or another land. The artist questions the very notion of barriers in a world increasingly busy with planting them.
published references
Sengupta, Paula, The Printed Picture: Four Centuries of Indian Printmaking, Volume I (New Delhi: DAG, 2012), p. 146
Singh, Kishore, ed., Indian Abstracts: An Absence of Form (New Delhi: DAG, 2014), p. 202
Singh, Kishore, ed., A Visual History of Indian Modern Art, Volume VII: Alternate Sensibilities (New Delhi: DAG, 2015), p. 1206
Singh, Kishore, Memory & Identity: Indian Artists Abroad (New Delhi: DAG, 2016), p. 429 A Place in the Sun: Women Artists from 20th Century India (New Delhi: DAG, 2021), p. 28
Zarina Hashmi
Untitled
1971
Serigraph on paper
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Zarina Hashmi
Untitled
1971
Serigraph on paper
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