Cities I Called Home/ Bangkok, number 2 of 5 from the portfolio Cities I Called Home
Zarina, Indian, 1937 - 2020
2010
Woodcut and text printed in black on handmade Nepalese paper and mounted on Arches cover buff paper
Edition 12/25
Image: 15 15/16 × 12 5/8 in. (40.5 × 32.1 cm)
Sheet: 25 13/16 × 19 3/4 in. (65.6 × 50.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Evelyn A. and William B. Jaffe 2015 Fund
2019.83.2
Geography
Place Made: India, South Asia, Asia
Period
21st century
Object Name
Research Area
On view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, lower right: Zarina 2010; numbered, in graphite, lower left: 12/25, inscribed, in graphite, lower center: Cities I called home / Bangkok
Label
Marked by her life of displacements and migrations, Zarina’s series Cities I Called Home explores the fragility of belonging and home, with each map reproducing one of the cities where she has lived. Zarina was born in Aligarh in northern India, but, following the Partition of the Indian subcontinent, her family fled to Delhi. Married to an Indian diplomat, Zarina lived in many cities around the world before finally settling in New York. Zarina created these works toward the end of her career, expressing the desire to reflect on the many roads she had crossed. About the idea of home, Zarina simply said: “I do not feel at home anywhere, but the idea of home follows me wherever I go.”
From the 2024 exhibition [Un]Mapping: Decolonial Cartographies of Place, curated by Beatriz Yanes Martinez, Hood Museum Board of Advisors Mutual Learning Fellow, Curatorial and Exhibitions
Course History
ANTH 50.33, Cartographic Encounters, Kenneth Bauer, Spring 2020
WRIT 5.30, Representing Immigrants, Melissa Zeiger, Fall 2020
Geography 29.01, Global Cities, Erin Collins, Spring 2023
Exhibition History
[Un]Mapping: Decolonial Cartographies of Place, Harteveldt Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 8 -November 3, 2024.
Provenance
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2019.
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