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Zarina Hashmi
(1937 - 2020)

River of Tears



“My work is not about the medium—it is about a concept. I begin with the word, not the image.”
- ZARINA HASHMI

Zarina Hashmi, who preferred to be known as simply ‘Zarina’, bore witness to the harrowing events of the Partition of India at a tender age of 10. This deeply impactful experience kindled within her a profound fascination with the intricate politics of home, space, and migration-themes that would come to define her...



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  Lot 76 of 78  

EVENING SALE: MODERN ART
16 SEPTEMBER 2023

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Zarina Hashmi
River of Tears

2007
Faux pearls on a string
Length 372 in (945 cm), installed dimensions variable

PROVENANCE
Private Collection, New Delhi

EXHIBITED
Making History Our Own, New Delhi: Sahmat at All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society (AIFACS), 30 January – 5 February 2007
The Sahmat Collective: Art and Activism in India Since 1989, Chicago: Smart Museum of Art, 14 February – 9 June 2013; North Carolina: Ackland Art Museum, 13 September 2013 – 5 January 2014; Ontario: Art Gallery of Mississauga, 24 July – 19 October 2014; California: Fowler Museum, 19 April – 2 August 2015

PUBLISHED
Jessica Moss and Ram Rahman, The Sahmat Collective: Art and Activism in India Since 1989, Chicago: The Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 2013, p. 194 (illustrated, detail)

Category: Sculpture
Style: Abstract


 









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