The "mother country" exerts a strong tug on the diaspora and pretty much defines their identity in the lands they migrate to. This also holds true for most artists who trace their roots to the Indian subcontinent--more often than not it is their dominant source of inspiration and ideas.
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Superior Firepower, for now: Seher Shah at Nature Morte Berlin
"The Expansion Complex of the First Great Ornamental Age," Seher Shah's new series of digital prints at Nature Morte Berlin lifts images from the sepia-toned archive of yesteryear—a black-and-white news photo, an aerial view of a city, a rigid portrait in an antique studio—and tweaks them, splitting and embroidering them with geometric designs at the edges, creating an effect that is somehow simultaneously old-fashioned—like a death-letter edged in lacy black—
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