Shah draws inspiration from Agha Shahid Ali\u2019s poem, The Dacca Gauzes \u2013 \u201cThose transparent Dacca gauzes \/ known as woven air, running \/ water, evening dew: \/ a dead art now, dead over \/ a hundred years\u201d. Says the artist: \u201cThere is an unknown quality that materials hold by weaving histories and cultures speaking to each other. I thought of this material resonance when I first read Agha Shahid Ali\u2019s poem, … His words evoked memories of my maternal family and the cities they inhabited; a cartography between the real and imaginedOf Dust and Woven Air are studies into absence and memory through drawing, printmaking and poetry. A poetry of loss and erasure revealed in line, form and materiality on paper. Working with dust and its accumulations, I draw on Bengal muslin (gauze), the ethereal cloth of Agha Shahid Ali\u2019s poem \u2026\u201d To 5 April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"