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The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents the Spanish premiere of Shahzia Sikander’s Parallax (2013) from July 16 to November 22, 2015. This is the fifth work screened in the newly-opened Film & Video Gallery of the Museum devoted to video art, video installations, and the moving image since 2014.

Shahzia Sikander (b. Pakistan, lives in New York) draws on traditional Indo-Persian miniature painting to craft a critique and deconstruction of contemporary history. Parallax is a multi-channel installation consisting of hundreds of digitally animated gouache drawings. The artist’s starting point for this piece is the contested territory of the Strait of Hormuz. In 2012 and 2013 Sikander traveled to the United Arab Emirates to participate in the Sharjah Biennial. It was there that she drew numerous details of the land, sea, and desert, which she expanded digitally to create her audiovisual piece.

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