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"The Last Post"Shahzia Sikander

January 25, 2013

Artist Shahzia Sikander, filmed in her Manhattan studio, discusses her animated video work The Last Post (2010).

Sikander also describes how beginning to create animations was a natural evolution in her studio process because she had already been working with narrative and layering in her paintings and large-scale installations.

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Credits

Producer: Ian Forster. Consulting Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Ian Forster. Camera: Rafael Salazar Moreno & Ava Wiland. Sound: Ava Wiland. Editor: Morgan Riles. Artwork Courtesy: Shahzia Sikander & Du Yun. Theme Music: Peter Foley.

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Shahzia Sikander

Shahzia Sikander specializes in Indian and Persian manuscript painting, a traditional, technique-driven style that Sikander imbued with a personal context and history, blending the Eastern focus on precision and methodology with a Western emphasis on creative, subjective expression. In doing so, Sikander transported manuscript painting into the realm of contemporary art. Expanding the manuscript painting to the wall, Sikander also creates murals and installations, using tissue-paper-like materials that allow for a more free-flowing style. Utilizing performance and various media and formats to investigate issues of border crossing, she seeks to subvert stereotypes of the East and, in particular, the Eastern Pakistani woman.

“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.”

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Interview

Islam and Miniature Painting

In this interview, conducted with Shahzia Sikander and the artist’s mother, the two discuss Sikander’s early interest in art, and the ways in which her work addresses and confronts women’s roles in society.