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Details
- Date
- 2010
- Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- ink on gelatin silver photograph
- Dimensions
- 104.1 x 76.2 cm sheet; 118.1 x 90.2 cm frame
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Dr Clinton Ng 2016. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 309.2016
- Copyright
- © Huma Bhabha
- Artist information
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Huma Bhabha
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About
My work is all about visual things from different places. Having spent periods in Pakistan, in New York City and now here in Poughkeepsie, I sometimes feel like a nomad, carrying myself from one setting, one landscape, to another.
– Huma BhabhaBorn in Pakistan, Huma Bhabha first went to the USA to study in 1981. She is best known for her often large-scale sculptural works that appear to present abstract renderings of mutant figures. Bhabha has a keen interest in science fiction, being influenced by 'Star trek', Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film '2001: a space odyssey', David Cronenberg’s films and the 'Alien' films. She has said, ‘It became clear that the issues that genre deals with – the state of the world, the future and the fate of human beings – paralleled my own interests and sensibility.’ 'Untitled' combines imagery of Bhabha’s monumental sculptures with a black-and-white photographs of Karachi – a place she sees as part of her.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Fearless: contemporary South Asian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 Jul 2018–13 Jan 2019
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Sofia Benitez, Creative Arts Across Disciplines, 'Huma Bhabha: the art of [de]construction', Poughkeepsie, 03 Nov 2014, (colour illus.).
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