Solo exhibition Shahzia Sikander: Indo-Persian miniature painting radically re-interpreted

The contemporary gallery Pilar Corrias in London presents a solo exhibition of the artist Shahzia Sikander from October 12 to November 13, 2021. It will take place in the original exhibition space, on Eastcastle Street in the London neighborhood of Fitzrovia. On display will be paintings, drawings, animations, and mosaics, and thus the full range of the artist's diverse oeuvre. Shahzia Sikander is known for infusing Central and South Asian pre-modernist writing practices with avant-garde disruption, deconstructing archetypal narratives about femininity, ethnicity, memory and migration.  

Shahzia Sikander was born in 1969 in Lahore, Pakistan - she now lives and works in New York. She learned miniaturism at the National College of Arts in Lahore and developed an experimental approach to the radical reinterpretation of her very own miniature paintings. Meanwhile, her portfolio includes paintings, drawings, animations, installations, and video and film art. In all media, elements of her recontextualization of Indo-Persian miniature painting can be found.