Texas Visual Art: Anila Quayyum Agha’s Itinerant Shadows

GLASS TIRE
By Patrica Mora

This is NOT a Refuge 1, 2019 - lasercut, resin coated aluminum and lightbulb, 8 x 6 x 4 feet

Anila Quayyum Agha’s newest work, on view at Talley Dunn in Dallas, emerges as a small, quiet spectacle that operates with intelligence and sensuous resonance, and it deploys shimmer and shadow to deliver some of the best art I’ve witnessed — at any time or on any continent. In part, this is due to the fact that it inflects space with a distinct reminder that a gracious cosmography is not only possible, but perpetually operative. The show, titled Itinerant Shadows, conjures a meditative state, and it manages to do so with big “B” Beauty. The show offers a array of mixed media pieces that are gorgeous. Their beauty causes us to reflect upon interior versus exterior / solid versus void / dark versus light, and all other binary ways of perceiving the world. [More]