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Lot 92
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Rashid Rana

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Description

  • Rashid Rana
  • Twins (Diptych)
  • C-type digital print on Diasec
  • 85.7 by 114.3 cm. (33 ¾ by 45 in.) each
  • Executed in 2007

Exhibited

London, Whitechapel Gallery, Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, January - April 2010

Winterthur, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, June - August 2010

Literature

K. Ogg ed., Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, Steidl, Germany, 2010, pp. 172-173 illus.

Rashid Rana, Chatterjee and Lal, Chemould Prescott Road, Pragati Offset Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, 2010, p.132-135 illus.

N. Ata-Ullah and H. Haroon, Labyrinth of Reflections, The Art of Rashid Rana, Topical Printers, Lahore, 2013, p. 32, 280-283 illus.

Catalogue Note

Rana's Twins are two monumental skyscrapers constructed of hundreds of thumbnail images depicting everyday scenes on the streets of Lahore. This work not only references New York's twin towers but highlights the dual-realities of globalisation.

"In the piece Twins, I referred to a work I did in the 1990s, when I first attempted to use both abstraction and representation as one. In this work I used the idea of horizontal and vertical associations, which also refers to the current economic issues. The overall picture references Western urban architecture (high-rise buildings) and the fragments are horizontal images of houses and street scenes from Lahore. The image from afar looks like an abstract and from up close it has tiny representational images. Together these two types of images draw attention to issues such as polarisation that lead to resentment between the two different worlds within one." (artist quoted in Asian Art Newspaper, 31 March 2012, http://www.asianartnewspaper.com/article/rashid-rana)