About

Seher Shah's work explores the poetics of space and memory through architectural drawing, weaving together personal, political, and historical narratives. She examines states of absence, fragmentation, and erasure, drawing on the histories and traces in South Asia, through architecture, sculpture, poetry, and the urban landscape. Working across drawing, printmaking, cast sculpture, and writing, Shah engages labour-intensive processes that foreground the material weight and presence of surfaces. Over the past two decades, her practice has consistently investigated the relationship between spatial abstraction and the page, treating paper as both a site of memory and a ground for inscription and mark-making. Alongside her practice, she has collaborated with architectural photographer, Randhir Singh, through relationships between architecture, photography, drawing, and printmaking. Shah (b. 1975, Karachi, lives and works in Barcelona) received her Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1998. Her work can be found in collections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Tate Modern, London; The New York Public Library, New York; Art Jameel Collection, Dubai; The Ishara Art Foundation and the Prabhakar Collection, Dubai; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg; amongst others.