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| NAME OF PUBLICATION | PLACE OF PUBLICATION | DATE OF PUBLICATION |
| THE HINDUSTAN TIMES | NEW DELHI | 26 JAN 2000 |
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Minimalist at home

The works of the artist Zarina Hashmi in contrast speak of home or rather of a constant search for home. In a series of woodcuts and aluminium casts which are on exhibit at Gallery Espace titled Home is a Foreign Place Hashmi draws from her memory of what was once her home. A childhood spent in Aligarh brings back the summer with its hot breeze, the dust storm, the rain and the fragrance of the earth. The minimalist mode she deploys to depict these are like Haiku poetry where the abbreviated verse is all the more evocative in suggesting mood. This Afternoon where the black diagonals over a vacant space invoke the vacuous hot afternoon broken by the whirring monotony of the fan.

Hashmi's home in New York where she has lived for the last many years makes her reflect all the more on the time spent in that house with its courtyard and the old wooden door. Her installation Home on Wheels is like a constant movement back and forth between the two worlds of her memory. The clusters of home on wheels poignantly titled, Somewhere the flotilla of sorrow will come to rest, reverberate with this cornerstone of her existence. As she states, "Journeys begin, roads are taken to unknown destinations. Borders are crossed, time allotted to stay is counted. The distance is measured from the place that was home". 

The exhibition is on till February 2.

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[[caption]] READ BETWEEN THE LINES: Language, a woodcut by Zarina Heshmi [[/caption]]