Publisher's Synopsis
Internationally-recognized artist Shahzia Sikander (b. 1969, Pakistan) presented her immersive animation Parallax (with music and sound by composer Du Yun) in addition to related drawings, prints, paintings, and photographs, for the first time at a museum in the United States at Tufts University. Conceived in the United Arab Emirates and debuting at the Sharjah Biennale in 2013, Parallax has been exhibited in Sweden, Spain, Bangladesh, Russia, and the Pace Foundation in San Antonio, TX, and will continue to be exhibited at international venues, including Hong Kong and Honolulu in 2016 and 2017. Inspired by the U.A.E.'s unique geography and culture at the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf, Sikander's 15-minute animation is constructed from hundreds of drawings and paintings, in which abstract, representational, and textual forms coexist and jostle for domination. Themes of dissonance and disruption echo the power tensions that have ch
