Toba Khedoori Familiar Forms, Ringed in Silence
Mar 01, 2022
3 minutes
Fridericianum, Kassel Review HILI PERLSON
ncountering Toba Khedoori’s work can be a destabilising, albeit exhilarating, experience. Her monumentally sized works on paper show highly detailed renderings of everyday things: a window, a piece of rope, an architectural structure. Yet rather than inspiring a sense of familiarity, the solemn images become allegories, disorienting and uncanny. The meticulously sketched objects are depicted from ambiguous perspectives, without any surrounding details. Instead, they float in an outsized expanse of blank space, as though they were apparitions in the mind’s eye rendering anything around them awash in white
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