Episode from the podcastWithout Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking

Shahzia Sikander. Perilous Order. 1997

Released Friday, 3rd December 2010

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Shahzia Sikander. Perilous Order. 1997

Friday, 3rd December 2010

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(b. 1969 in Lahore, Pakistan, lives and works in New York)Vegetable pigment, dry pigment, watercolor, and tea water on paper, 10 3/8 x 8 3/16" (26.4 x 20.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Purchase, with funds from the Drawing Committee. © Shahzia Sikander. Photograph: Sheldan C. Collins, courtesy Whitney Museum of American ArtAudio courtesy of Acoustiguide

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Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of LookingFebruary 26–May 22, 2006An ever-increasing number of artists, such as Mona Hatoum, Shirin Neshat, and Shahzia Sikander, have come from the Islamic world to live in Europe and the United States. Without Boundary brings together some of these major contemporary voices. The exhibition features the work of artists of diverse backgrounds—Algerian, Egyptian, Indian, Iranian, Iraqi, Lebanese, Pakistani, Palestinian, and Turkish—across a variety of mediums, including painting, sculpture, video, animation, photography, carpet and textile, and comic strips. The exhibition seeks to emphasize diversity by questioning the use of artists’ origins as the sole determining factor in the consideration of their art. To examine the various ways in which these artists’ works diverge from popular expectations, the exhibition and the accompanying catalogue examine the visual treatment of texts and miniature painting on one hand, and issues of identity and faith or spirituality on the other. The intention is not to imply uniformity based on a collective identity but rather to highlight complex, idiosyncratic approaches. Works by Mike Kelley and Bill Viola, two American artists, are included to prevent simplistic conclusions based purely on origin. Other artists featured include Jananne Al-Ani, Ghada Amer, Kutlug Ataman, the Atlas Group/Walid Raad, Shirazeh Houshiary and Pip Horne, Emily Jacir, Y.Z. Kami, Rachid Koraïchi, Marjane Satrapi, Shirana Shahbazi, and Raqib Shaw.The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with essays by Fereshteh Daftari and Homi Bhabha (Harvard), with a prose piece by novelist Orhan Pamuk. To view images of these artworks, please visit the Online Collection at moma.org/collection. MoMA Audio is available free of charge courtesy of Bloomberg.

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