Film and audio
Zarina in her own voice
Hear Zarina discuss home, exile, language, geometry, and the physical experience of making art through interviews, lectures, and museum films.
“The border is not on the land; it is drawn on one’s heart.”
After decades away from the place she called home, Zarina understood exile as a bond with people living across barbed wire, barriers, and checkpoints.
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Zarina’s voice gives the clearest entry into how home, exile, language, and geometry move through the work. Museum and gallery films provide material and exhibition context.
Audio · The Museum of Modern Art
Home Is a Foreign Place
Zarina discusses the images and Urdu words in the portfolio.
Studio visit · Tate
Zarina Hashmi Studio Visit
The artist discusses a life mapped through art and how exile, language, and loss enter the work.
Film · Glass Diaries
Paper Like Skin
A short introduction to Zarina’s challenge to minimalist and cultural conventions through paper, wood, and metal.
Conversation · Hammer Museum
A Conversation with Zarina
Zarina and curator Allegra Pesenti speak in the galleries of the retrospective Zarina: Paper Like Skin.
Artist project · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Artist Project: Zarina Hashmi
Zarina responds to works in the Met collection and reflects on the loss carried by separation from language.
Exhibition film · Hammer Museum
Zarina: Paper Like Skin
An exhibition introduction to the first retrospective, spanning work made from 1961 to 2011.
Talk · Serpentine Gallery
Invisible Gardens
Zarina’s contribution to the Serpentine Gallery Garden Marathon and its exploration of the idea of a garden.
Lecture · Sandhini Poddar · Jnanapravaha Mumbai
Zarina: Floating on the Dark Sea
The opening lecture in a series tracing Zarina’s work from the early 1960s through 2015.
Complete lecture series