Shahzia Sikander

Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada 30 September–1 October 2017 Weatherspoon Art Museum, North Carolina, USA 12 October 2019–5 January 2020 A monumental multimedia installation by acclaimed New York-based artist Shahzia Sikander. The dazzling Disruption as Rapture features animated miniature illustrations from an 18th-century manuscript of the Gulshan-i ’Ishq ('Rose Garden of Love'). In Disruption as Rapture, she uses animation to enliven an eighteenth-century illuminated manuscript of the Gulshan-i Ishq (Rose Garden of Love). In the story, star-crossed lovers must face daunting challenges and painful separation before they can unite. In keeping with the manuscript's religious and cultural plurality, Sikander's animation is multilayered, constantly in flux and transition, and open to multiple interpretations.