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Directions to my house11/8/2023 ![]() ![]() While her work tends towards minimalism, its starkness is tempered by its texture and materiality. An early interest in architecture and mathematics is reflected in her use of geometry and her emphasis on structural purity. The work of Zarina is defined by her adherence to the personal and the essential. This book project was a part of her residency. Zarina Hashmi was the 2017-18 Artist-in-Residence at the A/P/A Institute at NYU. Through Zarina’s essays, poems, artworks and personal photographs, readers will be guided through the events and experiences that shaped Zarina’s unique aesthetic. Beginning in pre-Partition India, Zarina describes a traditional Muslim home in the small university town of Aligarh, India, the fragrant, enclosed, garden planted by her mother, Partition through the eyes of a ten-year old girl, coming of age in Paris in the 1960s, the art communities in the various cities she called home, and her current reflections on claiming New York as a home for the last forty years. Directions to My House chronicles the fascinating life of Zarina Hashmi in her own words and images. ![]()
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