Seher Shah

Emergent Structures: Relative Noise, Planar Landscape and Capital Mass

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Seher Shah, Emergent Structures: Relative Noise, Planar Landscape and Capital Mass, 2011, Graphite and Gouache on paper, Dimensions variable. Art Jameel Collection. Photo by Mohamed Somji.

Artwork Details

Artist

Seher Shah

Title

Emergent Structures: Relative Noise, Planar Landscape and Capital Mass

Date

2011

Medium

Graphite and Gouache on paper

Dimensions

Variable

Credit Line

Art Jameel Collection

Work Description

Seher Shah’s drawings, prints and sculptures explore ideas around space, landscape, objects and aesthetics. Emergent Structures: Relative Noise, Planar Landscape and Capital Mass is a three-part graphite drawing that explores the qualities of modernist architecture through simple motifs. Individual features such as the wall, grid and column are simplified, flattened and often repeated to examine qualities of architecture within a landscape.

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Artist Biography

Seher Shah (b.1975) lives and works in New Delhi, India.

Seher Shah received her Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1998. Shah’s practice uses experiences from the field of art and architecture to explore landscape, space, objects and aesthetics through drawing, printmaking and sculpture. In recent years, her work has been concerned about the language of drawing, and how to represent an experiential nature of space.

Her work has recently been shown at the Austrian Cultural Forum, New York (2018); Dhaka Art Summit (2018); Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur (2018); Art Basel (2017); Mémoires des Futurs, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2107); Nature Morte, New Delhi (2016); Green Art Gallery, Dubai (2012 & 2016); Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi (2015); the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2015); the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New York (2015); Glasgow Print Studio (2015); Experimenter, Kolkata (2014); Athr Gallery, Jeddah (2014); and Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai, (2013).