Folding House by Zarina

Folding House by Zarina

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Title: ZARINA: Folding House
Pages: 50
Year : 2014
Details : Essay by Devika Singh
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ISBN 13 97881 908504-5-2

“Drawings of houses have long acted as portable repositories of Zarina’s migrant biography. The variations she developed throughout her career on their shapes, sizes and floor plans form a recurrent presence in her prints. Zarina’s houses encapsulate through simple sings much of her relation to the world. Folding House (2013) thus charts the progression of a house as it swells and contracts. Each of the 25 collages bears the diagram of a house, adorned with shafts of gold or divided into sections. At the centre is a house flanked with wings. Cloaked in gold leaf, it seems to expand into space. The smallest house is a house on wheel, a tiny mobile wedge of a house. Its agility contrasts with some of the sturdier, crumbly houses. Much of Zarina’s work concerns the life she had before becoming an artist, which was marked by the aftermath of Partition and the experience of exile. Read Folding House from left to right and you’ll find that a crack runs through the first house at the top of the composition. Already neatly separated between left and right, the house speaks not of comfort and protection but of contingency. Similarly, at the opposite end in the bottom right corner, stands a disintegrated house whose rugged shape bears little semblance with the other designs. The title of the work suggests that these cloistered spaces are all variations on the same house permutated or rather folded and unfolded into different patterns…..

 

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