Hamra Abbas

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Hamra Abbas

Description

Hamra Abbas is an artist. Her practice crosses a wide range of media, appropriating and transforming culturally loaded imagery, iconography, and traditional motifs and styles to raise questions of conflict within society.

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First Name

Hamra

Surname or Business Name

Abbas

Years Affiliated

2015/2018

Affiliation

NTU CCA Singapore

Birthplace

Pakistan

Occupation

Artist

Biographical Text

Hamra Abbas is an artist. Her practice crosses a wide range of media, appropriating and transforming culturally loaded imagery, iconography, and traditional motifs and styles to raise questions of conflict within society. Between May and June 2015, Abbas was Artist-in-Residence at NTU CCA Singapore. During her residency, Abbas explored the complex intertwining of histories, class, race, and culture that defines Singapore, working with the courtly Chinese painting style of Gongbi to address the story of Indian migration in Singapore.

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Citation

“Hamra Abbas,” NTU CCA Singapore Digital Archive, accessed March 28, 2024, https://ntuccasingapore.omeka.net/items/show/901.

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