Seher Shah's work navigates the many permutations of personal and historical collective spatial memory through powerful graphic constructions. Trained as an architect, she starts with her own detailed drawings and then combines these with found imagery, both diagrammatic and photographic. Shah's black and white prints and drawings explore the dimensions and incarnations of various iconographies: architectural, historical, personal, and political. The exhibition is comprised of large-scale drawings as well as digital prints in a variety of sizes and formats. The impetus of her artistic exploration is the space of memory, this begins with her personal recollections and retracing of iconic architectural spaces and forms, as well as the official and clandestine histories of the various cultures she has lived in during her life.

Shah's mise en scène is a complex construction of icons, symbols, spaces and historical eras. Through her thoughtful and innovative draftsmanship and compositional style, Shah presents the viewer with dynamic landscapes of imagined recollections and possible scenarios for the future. Using the aesthetics of power from pagan symbology to elements of Imperial authority, Shah's work portrays the organic amalgam of recreating the historical and the personal by synthesizing location and sentiment into a kinetic alternate space of memory; memory which makes no distinction between public and private happenings.