Zarina Hashmi
(1937 - 2020)
Homes I made / a life in 9 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. Hashmi has always engaged with the politics of space and its crossings. Mirroring her own extensive travels and the multiple meanings that the word 'home' has for her,...
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. Hashmi has always engaged with the politics of space and its crossings. Mirroring her own extensive travels and the multiple meanings that the word 'home' has for her, Hashmi's work challenges familiar locations like 'country', the ways in which they are bordered, delimited and traversed, and the feelings and memories that they evoke in us. Her minimalist prints use these locations to construct new geographies, imbuing them with fresh perspectives and new, universal meanings. 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. 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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Zarina Hashmi Homes I made / a life in 9 lines
a) b) c) d) e) f) g) h) i) Signed and dated in English (lower right)
Fifth from a limited edition of twenty prints (each), and one uneditioned print (j)
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Category: Print Making