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Hamra Abbas: Object Lessons |
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Anita Dawood |
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Green Cardamom, 2009, 72 pages, Hard cover, ISBN: 978-09551779-96 |
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Hamra Abbas’ is a versatile practice, one that straddles a range of media, from paper collage and painting to ephemeral soft Plasticine sculpture and video. Her works often take a playful look towards widely accepted traditions. By appropriating culturally loaded imagery and iconography, and transforming them into new works that may be experienced spatially and temporally, she creates new platforms from which to view notions of culture, tradition and exchange.
This publication attempts to capture the range of Abbas’s practice, mirroring her use of a variety of media in the many voices that write about her works. Eight curators/ academics – Anna Sloan, formerly of Michigan University; Quddus Mirza, National College of Arts, Lahore; Mia Jankowicz ,formerly curator at Gasworks, London; Sophie Gordon, curator, Royal Photograhy Collection; Divia Patel curator, at the V&A Museum; Virginia Whiles, Lecturer at the Chelsea College of Art; and Hammad Nasar, co-founder Green Cardamom – each focus on a particular work by Abbas taking a detailed look at a particular aspect of her practice. In addition, curator Sharmini Pereira, Director and founder of Raking Leaves, interviews Abbas about her work and approach. |
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