In this video, artist Huma Bhabha and curator Shanay Jhaveri discuss her sculpture We Come in Peace, the 2018 site-specific installation for The Met's Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, the sixth in a series of commissions for the outdoor space. Bhabha's work addresses themes of colonialism, war, displacement, and memories of place. Using found materials and the detritus of everyday life, she creates haunting human figures that hover between abstraction and figuration, monumentality and entropy.
Huma Bhabha on We Come in Peace
Bhabha discusses her work’s themes of colonialism, war, displacement, and memories of place.
Huma Bhabha and Shanay Jhaveri
5 min. watch
Contributors
Huma BhabhaShanay Jhaveri
Assistant Curator, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art
Assistant Curator, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art
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