"The show on the second level, Collective Behavior, is the most comprehensive exhibition to date of the internationally renowned Pakistani American artist, spanning 35 years of Sikander's career. For decades Sikander has subverted Central and South-Asian visual art categories, relentlessly yet patiently expanding her practice to encompass a variety of other media. Her work has been pivotal in cementing the art of the South Asian diaspora as a contemporary American tradition."
"The show includes watercolors, paintings, mixed media collages, gold leaf, graphite, laminated glass, video installation, glasswork, mosaic and screenprints on handmade marble paper. Rooted in a space of transnational experimentation, the body of work presented in the show provides a toolbox of thematic spatiotemporal trajectories: migration, trade, colonialism, the violence of borders, the petroleum industry, Western relations with the Global South, power, trauma, empire, gender and body politics-all centering women in the process."
At the Cantor Arts Center, a reproduction of Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman adorns the ground-level elevator doors. Collective Behavior on the second level presents 35 years of Sikander's work and a wide range of media, including watercolors, paintings, mixed-media collages, gold leaf, graphite, laminated glass, video installation, glasswork, mosaic and screenprints on handmade marble paper. The exhibition navigates themes of migration, trade, colonialism, border violence, petroleum industry impacts, Global South–Western relations, power, trauma, empire, gender and body politics, with a consistent focus on women. The exhibition premiered at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024 and appears at the Cantor as the West Coast venue, with two sold-out events on Nov. 13 that will be livestreamed. The gallery begins with books under a glass case as the first display upon entry.
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