Rah Naqvi b. 1996
what is prayer, if not a griever's archive, 2025
Watercolour pigments made from various soil, mushroom dust, and anatto seeds on archival paper
(HSN Code: 970110)
(HSN Code: 970110)
90 x 63 inches
Frame size: 69 x 49 x 1.8 inches each
Frame size: 69 x 49 x 1.8 inches each
Copyright Rah Naqvi, 2025
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Using pigments made from the artist's mother's garden soil, mushroom dust, annatto seeds, this diptych looks at prayer as a site of study. The repetitions in a cycle of prayer...
Using pigments made from the artist's mother's garden soil, mushroom dust, annatto seeds, this diptych looks at prayer as a site of study. The repetitions in a cycle of prayer and the material significance of the gestures allow the body to process catastrophe, a place for grief to rest. This work has parallels in the work laments for blackened hearts citing overlaps between gestures of faith and gestures of grief. Each pigment holds its own history, memory and weight. Annatto from Curaçao that was imported from Latin America, mushroom dust collected from dead trunks of Elm trees, soil from a mother’s potted plants and other sites carrying historic memory.
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