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Tayeba Begum Lipi is one of Bangladesh's foremost contemporary artists. Her practice includes installations, paintings and sculpture, printmaking, and video as a means to comment on the politics of gender and female identity and representation. She is best known for her sculptural works, which re-create everyday objects associated with women and their lives through unlikely and provocative choice of materials such as metal and safety pins. The... Tayeba Begum Lipi is one of Bangladesh's foremost contemporary artists. Her practice includes installations, paintings and sculpture, printmaking, and video as a means to comment on the politics of gender and female identity and representation. She is best known for her sculptural works, which re-create everyday objects associated with women and their lives through unlikely and provocative choice of materials such as metal and safety pins. The present lot, presents the ubiquitous women's handbag or purse made not from the usual soft leather or cloth but out of gleaming stainless steel and razor blades to suggest notions of violence, and of armour and steely confrontation. A note on the artist on the Guggenheim website states, "Inspired by the strong women of her childhood, Lipi's work questions the representation of women's bodies and the history of their social roles, particularly in Bangladesh, where historical and religious expectations continue to determine what is permissible." (Tayeba Begum Lipi, The Guggenheim, online)

Lipi completed a Master of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka in 1993, and was awarded a Grand Prize at the 11th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh in 2003. She has been a presence on the global art stage since 2012, when she was invited to participate in the critically acclaimed Guggenheim Museum survey of contemporary Southeast Asian art titled "No Country", and her work is now part of the museum's permanent collection. Her work continues to receive acclaim for its constant innovation and for the conversation she invokes on the roles and representations of women and marginalised genders, a topic of increasing relevance not just in Bangladesh but throughout the world.

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