Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago
Kashmir-raised, London-based artist Raqib Shaw’s monumental painting, "Paradise Lost," is inspired by an eclectic range of sources—from Mughal and Persian miniatures to Renaissance altarpieces and Old Masters paintings, from Japanese art and Kashmiri and Urdu poetry to Hindu and Western mythology—that he fuses in a visual vocabulary and technique that are uniquely his own.
Hear from professor David Lomas and curator Madhuvanti Ghose as they decipher and analyze the culturally diverse sources and the unique vocabulary of Raqib Shaw, relating these to the artist’s lived experience of displacement and exile and his unending quest to recreate a paradise lost.
Kashmir-raised, London-based artist Raqib Shaw’s monumental painting, "Paradise Lost," is inspired by an eclectic range of sources—from Mughal and Persian miniatures to Renaissance altarpieces and Old Masters paintings, from Japanese art and Kashmiri and Urdu poetry to Hindu and Western mythology—that he fuses in a visual vocabulary and technique that are uniquely his own.
Hear from professor David Lomas and curator Madhuvanti Ghose as they decipher and analyze the culturally diverse sources and the unique vocabulary of Raqib Shaw, relating these to the artist’s lived experience of displacement and exile and his unending quest to recreate a paradise lost.
