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"The concept of home - whether personal, geographical, national, spiritual or familial - has resonated throughout my work." - ZARINA HASHMI

Born in Aligarh in pre-Independence India, Zarina Hashmi (popularly known as Zarina) explored and evoked the ideas of "home", separation, distance, displacement, and longing in her work - a direct influence of her extensive travels and transient "homes."

It is, perhaps, a result... "The concept of home - whether personal, geographical, national, spiritual or familial - has resonated throughout my work." - ZARINA HASHMI

Born in Aligarh in pre-Independence India, Zarina Hashmi (popularly known as Zarina) explored and evoked the ideas of "home", separation, distance, displacement, and longing in her work - a direct influence of her extensive travels and transient "homes."

It is, perhaps, a result of these themes that her work continues to remain relevant to the political upheavals of the world we live in, not only because it is a topographical record of her own life and the places she has lived in, but also a record of a much larger landscape of conflict and violence. "Zarina's work has moved across regions and established communication by using the common right to the face of the earth as her platform." (Homi K Bhabha quoted in Devika Singh, Zarina: Folding House, New Delhi: Gallery Espace, 2014, criticalcollective.in, online)

An early exposure to Islamic design and architecture, thanks to her father, and an educational background in mathematics, formed the foundation of her geometric style and her emphasis on structural purity, as seen in the present lot. Though her work leans towards minimalism, its starkness is balanced by texture and materiality. However, the last impression of her art lies in its emotional core - shaped by her memories of home and family.

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