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By Reuben Keehan
‘Fine Lines’ September 2021
Aisha Khalid’s expressive and rigorous geometric arrangements play with surface and depth, focusing thematically on inequalities experienced in patriarchal societies. Veiled figures, flower motifs, draped curtains, and a limited palette of blue, white and red, appear in symmetrical arrangements drawn from textile patterns and Islamic geometry. Having graduated from the National College of Art, Khalid undertook a residency in the Netherlands that was interrupted by the terrorist attack of 11 September 2001, and where her experience of Amsterdam’s red-light district led her to question her expectations of gender equality in the West. Dutch drapery, tulips and Delft-blue roses figure prominently in the works, which are marked by their two-part structure, with each side closed off in response to the divisiveness of world events.
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