Shahzia Sikander Quotes

• Talking with other artists is an incredible process. You engage with the work very differently...a nd different relationships between different works start to emerge. To tap into that energy-to tap into that moment-is great for me as an exercise.

  Shahzia Sikander

  Exercise, Artist, Talking

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• I'm interested in taking a form, breaking it apart, and then rebuilding it. It is about transformation for me...it is a very core notion that stabilizes my practice.

  Shahzia Sikander

  Practice, Rebuilding, Transformation

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• For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

  Shahzia Sikander

  Practice, Drawing, Imagination

  "Artist Shahzia Sikander on how she draws" by Shahzia Sikander, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.

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• Art, for me, has always been a ticket for experience.

  Shahzia Sikander

  Art, Tickets

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• In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.

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  Gestures, Painting, Ends

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• I think context, location matters a lot. Because location obviously in my situation, it's the space in which the work is going to be exhibited. And since some of the work I do is created onsite, it requires a different type of space, versus the smaller drawings or more subject-oriented work. So that the context becomes important.

  Shahzia Sikander

  Thinking, Drawing, Space

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• Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the formal aspects of the Indo-Persian miniature-painting genre has often been at the core of my practice.

  Shahzia Sikander

  Art, Illustration, Practice

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