40.6 x 30.5 cm
16 x 12 1/8 inches
55.1 x 46.5 x 3.8 cm (incl frame)
21 3/4 x 18 3/8 x 1 1/2 inches (incl frame)
In the series Empire Follows Art, Sikander transforms the winged figure, a form prevalent in South Asian, Persian, and Central Asian
Love), which was also the source material for Sikander's 2016 animation Disruption as Rapture, located in the first section of this
exhibition. Within the manuscript, the winged figures feature in a dreamscape and are the physical and philosophical vehicles that offer
the protagonist clairvoyance and vision.
Sikander's playful reinvention isolates, abstracts, and partially conceals the winged forms with broad swaths of pooled color and
overlapping, repeating motifs. As a whole, the series holds tension between the act of ascending and descending flight. Through such
reinvention, Sikander explores new ways of seeing and thinking about imperial and colonial histories and contemporary events.
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