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Lot Essay
"I lived in Aligarh with my siblings and my parents a long time back.
Through my prints, I have revisited my childhood. [...] In 2000, when I was in Delhi, I decided to go to Aligarh for a day to visit this place about which I had created a whole narrative, which is only 81 miles away from Delhi but which is 3,438 miles away from New York! I went to see the house from which I have derived so much inspiration -- The House with Four Walls. It was very strange -- I felt very close and yet very distant. My parents were no longer there, my brothers were scattered all over the world. I didn't know how to connect with my own feelings. In a way, it was like closing a book shut." (G. Sen, Interview: Zarina Hashmi, Art India, Mumbai, Volume XI, Issue 1, Quarter 1, 2006, p. 49)
Depicting themes of home, displacement, memory and loss, Zarina's autobiographical works invite the viewer to find refuge in the homes, both physically and metaphysically. Initially trained in mathematics and deeply influenced by architecture, her prints reflect her understanding of space and proportion and an affinity for basic geometric shapes; the square, circle and triangle. House with Four Walls was executed during Zarina's residency at the Women's Studio Workshop, a visual arts organisation dedicated to printmaking in Rosendale, New York in 1991.
Through my prints, I have revisited my childhood. [...] In 2000, when I was in Delhi, I decided to go to Aligarh for a day to visit this place about which I had created a whole narrative, which is only 81 miles away from Delhi but which is 3,438 miles away from New York! I went to see the house from which I have derived so much inspiration -- The House with Four Walls. It was very strange -- I felt very close and yet very distant. My parents were no longer there, my brothers were scattered all over the world. I didn't know how to connect with my own feelings. In a way, it was like closing a book shut." (G. Sen, Interview: Zarina Hashmi, Art India, Mumbai, Volume XI, Issue 1, Quarter 1, 2006, p. 49)
Depicting themes of home, displacement, memory and loss, Zarina's autobiographical works invite the viewer to find refuge in the homes, both physically and metaphysically. Initially trained in mathematics and deeply influenced by architecture, her prints reflect her understanding of space and proportion and an affinity for basic geometric shapes; the square, circle and triangle. House with Four Walls was executed during Zarina's residency at the Women's Studio Workshop, a visual arts organisation dedicated to printmaking in Rosendale, New York in 1991.