Taaza Tareen II- VASL Residency-2007

These sculptural pieces are made in VASL residency, Karachi, Pakistan. The work was made in response to the given studio site, which was a warehouse used for keeping huge rolls of newsprint paper. The gigantic rolls and its endless length intrigued me to explore its materiality into large-scale abstract figurative forms. In these forms I was looking into the deceptive quality of paper as fabric, which led me to do studies on the body- fabric relationship that resulted in these sculptural forms.