Seher Shah, Notes from a City Unknown, 2021
Portfolio of 32 screen-prints on paper in custom box
9 x 12 inches
Seher Shah’s 'Notes from a City Unknown' (2021) is a portfolio of thirty-two screen-prints on paper, drawing on observations and reflections from New Delhi. Through poetic notations composed alongside architectural forms, the work explores the city through sites of fissure, complexity and contradiction through relationships between architectural forms and language. Shah looks to bind architectural, political and historical events to the intimate and personal, through markers of time and memory.
Working across drawing, printmaking, sculpture and writing, Seher Shah’s practice speaks to the poetics of how we perceive the landscape around us. Through the historical and intimate, and in between the architectural, political, and personal, she explores the abstraction of space through states of absence, fragility and fragmentation. Her studies on absence explore architectural perspective drawing traditions, fractured histories of objects and their erasure, alongside marks that retain the traces of time through real and imagined spaces. Working with variations of line, depth, and flatness, through graphite and ink, charcoal and dust, cast concrete and iron, her works are dedicated to the intimacy of mark-making through surfaces and their material weight.
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