Sarah Naqvi 1996

Lives in Mumbai. Works in India, Amsterdam.

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AKINCI

Sarah Naqvi is an explicitly political, young feminist artist who started a residency at De Ateliers in Amsterdam this season. Her work combines heritage techniques from her native country India, with observations, feelings and activist statements on the cultural and religious practices in India in recent years. Small embroidered vulvas, masks, watercolours, tapestries and large, naturally dyed cottons foreground tabooed topics in her country, such as menstruation and unrealistic body ideals, taking a bold stance against orthodox conversation and braving outraged responses. Even though the women in her pictures seem threatened and affected by fear, they do not appear scared. Dark and conscious they seem of their fate, almost fighting back through the picture, embedded in symbolic signs. AKINCI is proud to present a selection of her works for the first time in The Netherlands.

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Artworks by Sarah Naqvi

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The gallery of... Leylâ Akinci en Renan Beunen

In the section 'The gallery of' we talk to a selection of gallery owners from the Netherlands and Belgium: when and how did they start their gallery, what has changed in the art world since, what is their profile, what do they collect themselves, and what has been the impact of the pandemic on their gallery? In this part: Leylâ Akinci and Renan Beunen

Oscar van Gelderen

HUNGER - AKINCI

Until July 18, AKINCI is showing the exhibition HUNGER, in which hunger is interpreted in a broad sense: hunger for life, love, human contact, touch and freedom. The idea is that the isolation and uncertainties of recent months have sharpened our senses. In the exhibition, five artists give us their unique artistic translation of the subject: Clarinde Wesselink, Sarah Naqvi, Melanie Bonajo, Cevdet Erek and Gluklya.

Flor Linckens

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Stephan Balkenhol, Miguel Angel Rios, Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács, Lungiswa Gqunta, Sarah Naqvi

19 mar - 30 apr 2022, Amsterdam, Nederland

Art Rotterdam 2021

Jaap van den Ende, Ruby Swinney, Anne Wenzel, Andrei Roiter, Lungiswa Gqunta, Sarah Naqvi

30 jun - 4 jul 2021, Rotterdam, Nederland

Hunger

Clarinde Wesselink, Gluklya, Cevdet Erek, melanie bonajo, Sarah Naqvi

6 jun - 18 jul 2020, Amsterdam, Nederland

Heroines Now

Lungiswa Gqunta, Gluklya, melanie bonajo, Anne Wenzel, Sarah Naqvi

2 nov - 21 dec 2019, Amsterdam, Nederland

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Sarah Naqvi (1996, India) had her first exhibition at Clark House, Mumbai in 2018. In the same year, she was
part of several group exhibitions, o.a. at Para Site, Hong Kong; TS1 Yangon, Myanmar (2018); Museum of
Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland (2018); Apexart New York; Conflictorium, Ahmedabad, ; Haus der Kulturen der
Welt, Berlin and Âme Nue, Hamburg. Naqvi has been part of the Forecast Forum Residency, Berlin in 2018. She
is the recipient of ‘The Phenomenal she’ award in 2019 conferred by the Indian National Bar Association and
NID Ford Foundation Grant in 2018.

2019/20, Sara Naqvi started her residency at de Ateliers in Amsterdam.

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