For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my … - Shahzia Sikander

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Shahzia Sikander

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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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