“Sheikh’s work reappropriates the aerial photograph by orienting his series spatially and cartographically. His photographs contribute to a four-dimensional understanding of the land and the struggle it holds by both situating his works temporally and documenting history as it is made visible on the land itself.”
Mika Yassur
Mika Yassur is a writer, wine bartender, and photographer in Ridgewood, NY by way of Santa Cruz, Paris, and Western Massachusetts. They graduated from Smith College with a degree in Government and Philosophy of Aesthetics. When they’re not in a cafe writing about space and land, they’re most likely dancing or running slightly late.
“How does the surface shape engage with the material world? How do some surfaces come to be considered permanent while others permeable? How does the idea of a surface translate to the digital realm? How did the surface become understood as a metaphor for a (lack of) profundity of knowledge? How is the surface implicated in the status of the image itself, as a support or as a medium?”