Two Questions for Seher Shah

Alexis Bhagat (author)

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Title	Two Questions for Seher Shah
Contributor	Alexis Bhagat (author)
DOI	https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0053.1.35
Landing page	https://punctumbooks.com/titles/the-funambulist-papers-vol-1/
License	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
Copyright	Bhagat, Alexis
Publisher	punctum books
Published on	2013-10-23
Long abstract	In her drawings, artist Seher Shah explores the forms of Modernist ab-stract architecture with a sensibility that is both nostalgic and critical. She employs basic elements of architectural drawing—the column, the grid, the wall—to fantastically render the ruins of imposition.In her 2011 exhibition, Object Anxiety, Shah stripped Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation of height, weight and mass, turning it on its side to create a plane. Her new series of drawings, presented in the ex-hibition Brute Ornament, zooms in on this plane and manipulates its form in a series of further deconstructions of Unité d’Habitation.
Page range	pp. 183–187
Print length	5 pages
Language	English (Original)

In her drawings, artist Seher Shah explores the forms of Modernist ab-stract architecture with a sensibility that is both nostalgic and critical. She employs basic elements of architectural drawing—the column, the grid, the wall—to fantastically render the ruins of imposition.In her 2011 exhibition, Object Anxiety, Shah stripped Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation of height, weight and mass, turning it on its side to create a plane. Her new series of drawings, presented in the ex-hibition Brute Ornament, zooms in on this plane and manipulates its form in a series of further deconstructions of Unité d’Habitation.