Exhibition

Shahzia Sikander 'I am also not my own enemy'

16 Oct 2009 – 21 Nov 2009

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Friday
11:00 – 18:00
Saturday
10:00 – 18:00
by appointment
Monday
11:00 – 18:00
Tuesday
11:00 – 18:00
Wednesday
11:00 – 18:00
Thursday
11:00 – 18:00

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Pilar Corrias

London, United Kingdom

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Pilar Corrias Gallery is delighted to present ‘I am also not my own enemy' the London debut of critically acclaimed artist Shahzia Sikander. Since the early 1990s, Shahzia Sikander has been instrumental in the rediscovery, re-infusion, and re-contextualization of Indo-Persian miniature painting. Trained as a miniaturist at the National College of Arts, Lahore, Sikander has pioneered an experimental approach to the anachronistic genre. Encompassing painting; drawing; animation; installation; video, and film Sikander's multi-dimensional praxis radically rearticulates the miniaturist tradition by inserting new dialogue that is often subversive and polemical in nature. Working from a rich ‘mental archive of imagery', Sikander's visual vocabulary engages a multiplicity of themes including transformation as narrative, the exploration of disruption as a means to cultivate new associations, and issues concerning labour, scale and time. Sikander's first presentation at Pilar Corrias Gallery reveals a fascinating insight into her thought processes and methods of meaning making.

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