Anti-monument: Shahzia Sikander in Conversation with Faisal Devji on Public Art

Faisal Devji is professor of Indian history and Fellow of St. Antony's College at the University of Oxford. His interests are in the intellectual history and political thought of South Asia and modern Islam.

Shahzia Sikander is widely celebrated for subverting Central and South Asian miniature painting traditions into dialogue with contemporary international art practices and launching the form known today as neo-miniature. Interrogating ideas of language, trade, empire, and migration through feminist perspectives, Sikander's paintings, video animations, mosaics, and sculpture explore gender, sexuality, racial narratives, and colonial histories. Sikander is a recipient of the MacArthur award and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation's Pollock Prize for Creativity, among other awards.