BOOK: Seher Shah-Of Absence and Weight, Rizzoli Publications

“Of Absence and Weight” is the release of the first comprehensive monograph of Pakistani-born artist Seher Shah, surveying twenty years of her practice across drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. Seher Shah’s practice is dedicated to drawing, printmaking and sculpture. The intimacy of the hand, through mark-making, has been a source of curiosity, research, and experimentation in her practice. She has worked with drawing and printmaking exploring ideas in architecture and perspective drawing traditions; contested relationships between history, objects and time; and the relationship between poetry and abstraction. Through works on paper using drawings, etchings, photogravures and woodcuts, and sculptural studies in cast iron, her work speaks to the poetics and fractures of how we view the landscape, through the historical and intimate. The monograph includes in-depth essays by leading historians and curators alongside the artist’s own writings and poetry. Her work speaks to the poetics and fractures of the surrounding landscape, spanning the historical and the intimate. She has explored ideas in architecture and perspective drawing traditions; contested relationships between history, objects, and time; and examined the relationship between poetry and abstraction.-Efi Michalarou