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By Tazeen Qayyum
I work in the style of miniature painting of the South Asian tradition to explore compelling contemporary issues. My work comments on aggressive global politics and the subsequent suppression of difference. A dead cockroach motif is repeated in my work to simultaneously attract and repulse; commenting on human rights violations and fatalities as a result of globalization and war. The work borrows the language of entomology to explore how categories and classifications used in archiving practices, parallel the agendas of political propaganda. Preserved and presented in a steel, Armour-like, display box, the insect images are spread open for inspection/ investigation. The title of the work, ironically, is derived from universal pesticide warnings, to evoke dehumanizing ideas. When people are killed like insects around the world, we question our own insensitivity and the diminishing value of human life.
Biography
Tazeen Qayyum (Canada/Pakistan) is a contemporary miniature painter who graduated from the National College of Arts Lahore, Pakistan in 1996. She has had three solo exhibitions and has participated in numerous International group exhibitions some of which include ‘Urban Myths & Modern Fables’, University of Sydney, Australia and University of Toronto, Canada, ‘A Thousand and One Days: The Art of Pakistani Women Miniaturists’ at the Academy of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii, ‘JAALA Exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Japan, ‘Negotiating Borders’ Miniature Paintings at Katmandu, Nepal and ‘Homecoming’, at the National Gallery of Pakistan. Her work was included in the 10th Asian Biennale, Dhaka, Bangladesh and 2nd Painting Biennale, Tehran, Iran. Her works are part of many public and private collections and has received several critical reviews including a review in The New York Times in 2009.
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