Directions to My House | Zarina Hashmi with Sarah BurneyDirections to My House chronicles the fascinating life of Zarina Hashmi in her own words and images. Beginning in pre Partition India, Zarina describes a traditional Muslim home in the small university town of Aligarh, India, the fragrant, enclosed, garden planted by her mother, Partition through the eyes of a ten year old girl, coming of age in Paris in the 1960s, the art communities in the various cities she called home, and her current reflections

objects that serve as metaphors of everyday human life

these seminal artists continue to provide space for envisioning new realities and modes of experiencing the world around us

Heman Chong adds

zoology and the whimsical invite viewers to ponder the origins of existence and one’s place in this realm of God’s making

The exhibition confronts viewers with a world of visual riddles and illusions created in the artist’s characteristically comic and subversive style

and in recent years

This publication is best accompanied with a visit to the special exhibition

particularly in works like Ptolemy’s Dog and Piltdown Man

“The stars have always served as marks that ground us to a physical location and time

“The works present new grounds with which to re-acquaint and re-look at Srihadi’s practice

This distinct visual language is furthered at STPI

examining painting's processes