Handmade paper with its surface tactility had much appeal for Zarina Hashmi who used it almost sculpturally to furrow and gouge the surface, as though creating impediments across what she would have chosen as a smoother journey for her life. The 1970s was a decade of emotional turbulence in her life that found a reflection in her work. The printmaker’s use of white ends up with a tortured sense of self even while it retains the purity of its intent to draw across a virgin surface.
published references
Singh, Kishore, ed., Memory & Identity: Indian Artists Abroad (New Delhi: DAG, 2016), p. 430
Singh, Kishore, ed., A Place in the Sun: Women Artists from 20th Century India (New Delhi: DAG, 2022), p. 26
Zarina Hashmi
Untitled
1993
Embossing and thread on handmade paper
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1993
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