Captivity

This work by Shahzia Sikandar is a large scale work which uses the elements of Urdu Calligraphy in its imagery. Shahzia breaks and disrupts the flow of Urdu calligraphy in the form of an Urdu Ghazal(Urdu romantic poetry) by the renowned South Asian Urdu poet Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib and uses fragments and elements of words to create this large-scale work abstractive painting which plays with the notion of text, calligraphy, language and scholarship.