Shahzia Sikander

Perez Art Museum Miami

Perez Art Museum Miami is exhibiting The Last Post (2010) by Pakistani-born, internationally recognized artist Shahzia Sikander (b. 1969). This video animation with sound addresses the complex exchanges between East and West. The video, which follows a non-linear narrative style, focuses on the image of an 18th-century colonial merchant from the infamous East India Company, whose figure crashes into Indo-Persian imagery and the cadence of experimental music.

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Sikander’s work approaches traditional Indo-Persian imagery and techniques, especially those of miniature painting, while combining them with the language of contemporary art. The results are captivating compositions that reflect on her own cultural background. Her drawings, paintings, videos and large-scale wall installations came to prominence in the mid-1990s within the context of identity politics and serve as an ironic comment on Western preconceptions of her cultural origins.

Sikander’s work has been exhibited at such important venues as the San Francisco Art Institute, Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin), Seattle Art Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York) and Museum of Modern Art (New York), among other institutions. Her work is included in many permanent collections, such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; Palazzo Grassi (Venice); Whitney Museum of American Art; MoMA; Devi Art Foundation (Haryana, India); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York); MAXXI, the National Museum of 21st-Century Arts (Rome); Walker Art Center (Minneapolis); Princeton University Art Museum; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Sikander also has participated in international exhibitions, such as the Dhaka Art Summit (Bangladesh), Auckland Triennial, Istanbul Biennial, Sharjah Biennial and Venice Biennale. The Last Post is on view through September 14, 2014.