Nusra Latif Qureshi

Forever and Ever

Green Cardamom, London
11 May - 15 June, 2012
Tuesday to Friday, 12pm to 6pm

Forever and Ever marks Nusra Latif Qureshi’s first solo show in the UK for seven years. Her exquisitely crafted
practice draws from colonial imagery, photography, botanical and miniature paintings to create works that
question the politics of representation. The blank spaces act as deliberate absences, further re-shuffling
expectations and mythologies.

The works in this exhibition came about after a period of inactivity, so in a sense are a re-grouping of Qureshi’s
concerns, particularly the use of the female figure; from the quintessential perfection depicted in Pahari painting
to the contemporary objectification of women. The lines and strands are visual attempts at the struggle to regain
clarity, (as hands are tangled in threads in ‘Forever and Ever I’, 2011), pointing to the female figure seeking to
regain her own place in the chaos of life.

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