Major multi-media public sculpture exhibition opens in Madison Square Park, New York - FAD magazine

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Artist Shahzia Sikander has created a large caller enactment connected the taxable of justness for a multimedia exhibition, Havah… to breathe, air, life, successful Madison Square Park, New York, and the adjacent courthouse. The accumulation marks the archetypal collaboration betwixt the Conservancy and courthouse—both located successful the Flatiron District of New York.

Shahzia continues to innovate creator forms, and Havah, meaning ‘air’ oregon ‘atmosphere’ successful Urdu and ‘Eve’ successful Arabic and Hebrew, is simply a transformative project. The enactment conceptually and physically unites the parkland and the courthouse done dialog amongst monumental sculptures, video, and augmented reality.”

With Havah…to breathe, air, life, Shahzia demonstrates however justness is conceptually and actively vibrant crossed cultures and genders.

Dr. Maria C. Gaztambide, Executive Director and Chief Curator of Public Art UHS.

Opening contiguous successful the parkland and astatine the Courthouse of the Appellate Division, First Department of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, the accumulation features 2 caller large-scale sculptures—one wrong the parkland that tin beryllium transformed with Snap AR exertion and different connected the Courthouse rooftop, disposable from the thoroughfare and the archetypal pistillate fig to adorn 1 of its 10 plinths. A video animation by Sikander volition beryllium connected presumption successful the park, visually intertwining the chiseled elements. The accumulation is simply a culmination of Sikander’s exploration of pistillate practice successful monuments and marks her archetypal major, site-specific outdoor accumulation successful sculptural form. Havah…to breathe, air, life is co-commissioned by Madison Square Park Conservancy and Public Art of the University of Houston System (Public Art UHS). The accumulation volition beryllium connected presumption successful New York from January 17th done June 4th, 2023, earlier traveling to Houston.

“Through luminous allegorical pistillate figures, Shahzia’s task asks who is historically represented and who wields powerfulness successful the justness system, some symbolically and actually,”

Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Deputy Director and Martin Friedman Chief Curator of Madison Square Park Conservancy.

Shahzia Sikander: Havah…to breathe, air, life, January 17 – June 4, 2023 Maddison Square, New York

About the artist

Shahzia Sikander (American, b. Pakistan 1969) expands and subverts pre-modern and classical Central and South-Asian coating traditions done a wide scope of materials and methods, including miniature painting, works connected paper, video, mosaic, and sculpture. Distinguished for launching the neo-miniature movement, Sikander investigates conceptual premises successful language, trade, empire, migration done feminist perspectives, colonial, and imperial powerfulness structures done her far-reaching practice.

Sikander’s innovative enactment has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Her traveling accumulation connected the archetypal 15 years of her creation practice, Extraordinary Realities, opened astatine The Morgan Library successful New York successful 2021 and traveled to the RISD Museum and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Shahzia Sikander: Unbound, opened successful 2021 astatine Jesus College, University of Cambridge, and explored the artist’s innovative usage of manuscripts.

Sikander is simply a 2006 MacArthur Foundation Fellow and received the United States Medal of Arts successful 2012. The creator became a Fukuoka Laureate successful 2022 arsenic a recipient of the Arts and Culture Prize from Fukuoka City, Japan. She earned her B.F.A. from National College of Arts successful Lahore, an M.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design, and participated successful Glassell School of Art’s CORE Program astatine The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.