Iftikhar Dadi And Elizabeth Dadi Magic Carpet

Bio iftikhar dadi and elizabeth dadi have collaborated in their art practice for 20 years.

Iftikhar dadi and elizabeth dadi magic carpet.

Iftikhar dadi and elizabeth dadi first presented magic carpet at the queens museum in 2005 where it hovered over a map of new york city. It sought to transcend the derivative. The missing one curated by nada raza magic carpet 2 is a site specific installati. Jan 5 2015 coecke van aelst god accuses adam and eve after the fall palazzo pitti.

Here they revisit the work and its evocation of the flying carpet of orientalist fantasy in the form of an oversized fairground light sculpture of a floating prayer rug updating the form to reflect the. Iftikhar dadi elizabeth dadi. Their work investigates the salience of popular media in the construction of memory borders and identity in contemporary globalization and the potential of creative resilience in urban informalities. And in fatal love there is magic carpet by iftikhar and elizabeth dadi.

Courtesy of the artists dhaka art summit samdani art foundation and jhaveri contemporary mumbai. Installed with the queens museum s famous relief map panorama of the city of new york it is an image of a patterned oriental rug made from hundreds of colored lights and it hovers glowing over the section corresponding to the museum s location. In karachi in the 90s a movement called karachi pop consisting of durriya kazi david alesworth iftikhar dadi and elizabeth dadi emerged. Tilism 2018 iftikhar dadi elizabeth dadi 49 in x 37 in archival pigment print on diasec tilism an inanimate object transformed into its own world tilism is a series of large format photographs of tiny plastic toys scaled up to reveal the objects unusual materiality marbled plastic strange fluorescent colors and irregular form.

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