Zarina Hashmi
(1937 - 2020)
Homes I Made / A Life in Nine Lines
Zarina Hashmi first experimented with printmaking in the 1960s, and has since adopted various printing techniques in her body of work. Over time, she has sophisticated her aesthetic as a printmaker, conveying layers of meaning through images built with an economy of line and form. In her works, “…Zarina draws upon the poetics of space and the politics of cultural migration to inscribe her memories of the people, places and things she has...
Zarina Hashmi first experimented with printmaking in the 1960s, and has since adopted various printing techniques in her body of work. Over time, she has sophisticated her aesthetic as a printmaker, conveying layers of meaning through images built with an economy of line and form. In her works, “…Zarina draws upon the poetics of space and the politics of cultural migration to inscribe her memories of the people, places and things she has encountered. With each carved line that forms the graphic imprint of a woodcut, Zarina maps out a personal autobiography of absence and loss that is formally characterized by the formation of shape, the recurrence of symbols and the calligraphic flair of a word/phrase in Urdu, her mother tongue. These elements interplay in their multiple variations with subtlety and precision, revealing a sensibility that is uncompromising in its search to locate meaning. Ground plans of houses she has lived in and left, maps of the countries she has passed through, letters written her by a sister deeply affected by the absence of her kin: such are the visual sources that plot the narrative fabric of Zarina’s experience and engender an exploration of themes that resonate universally as well” (Sharmistha Ray, Zarina: Weaving Memory 1990-2006, Bodhi Art exhibition catalogue, 2007, not paginated).
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38
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SPRING AUCTION 2011
Estimate
Rs 6,00,000 - 7,00,000
Winning Bid
Rs 7,40,600
ARTWORK DETAILS
Zarina Hashmi Homes I Made / A Life in Nine Lines
Signed and dated in English (lower right)
(Set of nine)
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Category: Print Making