SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART
 
Modern and Contemporary Art from India
February 25, 2011 through September 4, 2011, San Jose Museum of Art
 
 
  CRAWLING HOUSE, 1994
Cut and molded tin
33 elements, each 2 1/2 x 2 x 5 inches
Collection of Joyce E. Brodsky
Photo: Courtesy Luhring Augustine, New York

 
 
Zarina Hashmi
 
Born, 1937, Aligarh, India
Lives and works in New York

 
As an artist who has lived all over the world and now resides in America, Zarina Hashmi often grapples with ideas of home, notions of memory, and the impermanence of both. In Crawling House, she reimagined home by reconstructing it into easily movable parts that can be reconfigured at will. The “house” is equipped with wheels and thus is adapted for flexibility and freedom rather than permanence and a fixed location.