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Nomadic paper artist Zarina Hashmi's concept of home — Guggenheim talk
Posted on March 27, 2013
Zarina speaks with Professor Andres Huyssen at the Guggenheim on her notion of home as a foreign place.

On 1 March 2013, in conjunction with her first retrospective "Zarina: Paper Like Skin" at the Guggenheim in New York, Indian-born American artist Zarina spoke with Andreas Huyssen, Professor at Colombia University, about her influences, travels, paper and her notion of home.

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The Elaine Terner Cooper Education Fund Coversation with Contemporary Artists: Zarina, March 2013. Photo: Peter Snyder. (C) SRGF.

Zarina's discussion with Professor Huyssen formed part of the Elaine Terner Cooper Education Fund Conversation with Contemporary Artists series and took place at the Guggenheim on 1 March 2013. Huyssen began the conversation with an intimate description of the artist's works,

With sustained formal rigour her work draws emotional affect, even sensual opulence, from austerity.... How does she achieve creating some a strong bond with the viewer? ... On the one hand, the work is richly autobiographical, sustained by the experiences and memories of an exile and