Hamra Abbas
Islamabad, Pakistan
Buffalos in Combat directly references a 16th C Mughal miniature painting depicting a pair of buffalo
with horns locked in battle. The subject matter of this painting was popular during the reign of the
Emperor Akbar (1556-1605), where artists took great pride in depicting vibrant and naturalistic scenes
of courtly sports. Abbas renders this scene in life-size sculptural form, exploring the spectacle of
death under state sponsored systems of violence. Abbas uses historical images as a means to comment on
the normalization of violence in the contemporary world, reflecting on state sanctioned terror and its
relationship to underworld violence.
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Hamra Abbas, BUFFALOS IN COMBAT
photography: Tom Legrady
BUFFALOS IN COMBAT, 2008
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