Yasmin Zaidi paints the pandemic
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Yasmin Zaidi’s new artworks reflect on the COVID pandemic, isolation and grief
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Yasmin Zaidi’s new artworks reflect on the COVID pandemic, isolation and grief
Yasmin Zaidi has begun to paint grief. It comes through in her two new works: one shows a young woman holding chrysanthemums in her arms, with graves behind; another has masked, socially distant people along a stairway (to heaven?).
She asked her family what to name them, and got a number of replies: Viral Apartheid 2021, Loveliness and Loneliness. “I realised that everyone is feeling personally involved during this pandemic… They will give their own names to the paintings,” says the 70-year-old artist who paints flowers and people.