Pakistani painter Shahzia Sikander puts a contemporary spin on ancient
art, often taking cues from traditional Eastern
ideas of music, texts, scroll painting, and the
Persian art of miniature painting.
Inspired by the
idea of an imagined society in which psychotherapy is a freely available drop - in service, Johnson's installation
of large - scale paintings, hanging plants,
Persian rugs and four wooden day beds questions established definitions
of the
art object and its limitations, as well as the relationship between individual and shared cultural experience.