Nilima Sheikh: Fractured Skies

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• The weeping woman in We Must Bear

  Look at the scroll's lower left: a kneeling woman cries red tears over a lozenge in her lap, with a stencilled child in a cradle behind her.

• The figure carrying a body uphill

  At the centre of We Must Bear, a figure struggles up a slope under a lifeless body, a pose Sheikh took from a Safavid painting of Cain and Abel.

• The graves along the Line of Control

  Repeating octagonal lozenges stand for anonymous border graves, some overlaid with flowers cut in Sanjhi paper stencils made with artisans in Mathura.

• The skies of Shahid (Witness)

  Across ten new scrolls, fire and flood fill the lower registers while otherworldly beings watch from above and birds fly toward paler, bluer skies.

• The stencilled words in Home, Land 4

  Bakarwal voices are lettered across the landscape: "We are living in forests for hundreds of years and now we are being termed as illegal occupants."

適合

• 獨自參觀
• 發燒友

不適合

You want a light visit: these scrolls deal with war, displacement and violence against a child.

帶小朋友

Children 16 and under get in free, but two Home, Land text panels recount violence against an eight-year-old girl, so check them before bringing kids.