Rupak: Documenta 14 Clothing Shawky's works shed new light

Shawky's works shed new light on the roots of some of today's grave cultural and socio-political crises

Colour/black & white illustrations

Berlin and Tokyo

Weight: 136 gr

Published (date)November 2021

Rupak: Documenta 14 Clothing Shawky's works shed new lightThis is Lala Rukh's own language, a constellation of calligraphic form, minimalism and symbolic writing. Lala developed a notational system through her training in Islamic calligraphy and her close involvement with musical traditions from across the Indian subcontinent. Her drawings reflect the live quality of performed music, indexing sonic ruptures and melodic sequences as a graphic sensibility. Her works look to build a stop motion animation upon