A Slight and Pleasing Dislocation

work by Sikander

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  • Shahzia Sikander
    In Shahzia Sikander: Move to the United States

    …woman in such works as A Slight and Pleasing Dislocation (1993). “Her body is sexualized,” described Kishwar Rizvi, an art history professor at Yale University, “with an emphasis on her exaggerated breasts and rounded thighs, at the cost of all else. There is no head or arms, the latter reduced…

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