"Art making is a form of alchemy, in a way, because you are trying…to make gold from nothing. When it works very well is when you manage to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary."
"Chaman" (2000)
"Chaman," 2000
Mixed Media, dimensions variable Installation at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Courtesy the artist and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Mixed Media, dimensions variable Installation at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Courtesy the artist and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
"It’s very different when I’m working on a larger scale, which is much more gestural, which I’m aware of every little thing I’m doing and it’s very physical."
- Shahzia Sikander



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