Connections: Better Broken

Islamic art curator Navina Haidar extols the implications and aesthetics of the broken or incomplete.

"We live in a world of half-completed things or damaged objects, but I had never articulated to myself that in fact there were times quite often that I preferred the objects that way."

Islamic art curator Navina Haidar extols the implications and aesthetics of the broken or incomplete.


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Navina Najat Haidar
Curator, Department of Islamic Art

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