From White Cube: Raqib Shaw – Palazzo della Memoria

From Kashmir to South London and culminating in Venice, “Palazzo della Memoria,” a film directed by Dominic Gilday, offers an intimate insight into the artist Raqib Shaw’s life, tracing the arc of one series of paintings from inspiration to exhibition.

For Shaw, an artist in exile, home is “a memory of a place and time that no longer exist.” “Palazzo della Memoria” documents the ways in which this definition shapes Shaw’s practice, from his sausage factory-cum-studio where the artist converted by hand the concrete courtyard into a garden evoking the rolling landscapes of his youth, to the work he produces there in acrylic and enamel. 

This film, excerpted here, will be screened as part of “Raqib Shaw: Palazzo della Memoria,” an exhibition at Ca’ Pesaro – Galleria internazionale d’arte moderna, Venice

Curated by art historian Sir Norman Rosenthal and organized by Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Ca’ Pesaro – Galleria internazionale d’arte moderna in collaboration with White Cube, the exhibition runs through September 25, 2022.