Hamra Abbas: Wall Hanging INOVEMBER 2013-APRIL 2014 | NEW WING FAÇADE

Hamra Abbas’s art installation on the front of the Gardner Museum shows the spectacular silk and gold curtain (kiswa) that covers the door of the Kaaba in Mecca, Islam’s holiest and most venerated site. The artist was inspired by a small plaster cast of this object displayed in her mother’s house in Lahore, Pakistan. Creating a version of this quintessential Islamic image for her adopted city of Boston, the artist seeks to diffuse the prevailing tension between East and West by bringing visitors in contact with the unfamiliar through visual art.

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