Uploaded February 2021 | Updated September 2026, 16 hours ago
See the world from a new perspective with a thought-provoking discussion between two visual artists uncovering rich creative inspiration from science and nature.
In the latest REIMAGINE: Global Conversation for the #MuseumWithoutWalls, Toronto-based artist Radha Chaddah and London-based artist Zarah Hussain explore the role of the arts in helping us better understand the wide-ranging impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic — from the microscopic, to the communal, to the spiritual, all the way up to the interplanetary.
Recorded in early 2021, this conversation offers a preview of Chaddah’s new online performance exhibition. A COVID-19 story told in dance and light, IAM: Dance of the Molecules will premiere on the Museum’s website on Friday, March 5, 2021.
More about IAM: Dance of the Molecules: agakhanmuseum.org/programs/IAM/preview.html
Bios
Radha Chaddah is a Toronto-based visual artist and scientist. Born in Owen Sound, Ontario, she studied Film and Art History at Queen’s University (BAH) and Human Biology at the University of Toronto, where she received a Master of Science degree in cell and molecular neurobiology.
Chaddah makes art about invisible realities like the cellular world and electromagnetic energy, using light as her primary medium. Her work examines the interconnected themes of knowledge, illusion, and material reality. In her studio, she designs projected light installations for public exhibition. In the laboratory, she uses the tools of research science to grow and photograph cells using embedded fluorescent light-emitting molecules. Her photographs and light installations have been exhibited across Canada, and her photographs have appeared in numerous publications.
Visit Chaddah's website: radhachaddah.com
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Zarah Hussain works at the intersection of science and spirituality, combining contemporary digital art with rigorous training in traditional hand-drawn Islamic geometry. Her work encompasses infinitely looping animations made with code, interactive apps, painting and sculpture.
Her most recent project, Numina, was a large-scale sculpture with a digitally animated surface. Commissioned by the Barbican for their foyer spaces programme in 2016, Numina combined designs found in the art of the Islamic world with contemporary digital arts by mapping animated geometric patterns onto a pyramidal wall sculpture set in a hexagonal grid.
Hussain has completed several public art commissions, including a room in the new Royal London Hospital and an outdoor shutter project in Barking and Dagenham funded by the mayor of London’s Outer London Fund.
Visit Hussain's website: zarahhussain.co.uk
Bringing online Museum experiences to you is part of our mission to connect cultures and promote understanding between peoples. To learn more about how you can support the Museum by making a donation or becoming a Friend or Patron, please visit:
agakhanmuseum.org/support
See the world from a new perspective with a thought-provoking discussion between two visual artists uncovering rich creative inspiration from science and nature.
In the latest REIMAGINE: Global Conversation for the #MuseumWithoutWalls, Toronto-based artist Radha Chaddah and London-based artist Zarah Hussain explore the role of the arts in helping us better understand the wide-ranging impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic — from the microscopic, to the communal, to the spiritual, all the way up to the interplanetary.
Recorded in early 2021, this conversation offers a preview of Chaddah’s new online performance exhibition. A COVID-19 story told in dance and light, IAM: Dance of the Molecules will premiere on the Museum’s website on Friday, March 5, 2021.
More about IAM: Dance of the Molecules: agakhanmuseum.org/programs/IAM/preview.html
Bios
Radha Chaddah is a Toronto-based visual artist and scientist. Born in Owen Sound, Ontario, she studied Film and Art History at Queen’s University (BAH) and Human Biology at the University of Toronto, where she received a Master of Science degree in cell and molecular neurobiology.
Chaddah makes art about invisible realities like the cellular world and electromagnetic energy, using light as her primary medium. Her work examines the interconnected themes of knowledge, illusion, and material reality. In her studio, she designs projected light installations for public exhibition. In the laboratory, she uses the tools of research science to grow and photograph cells using embedded fluorescent light-emitting molecules. Her photographs and light installations have been exhibited across Canada, and her photographs have appeared in numerous publications.
Visit Chaddah's website: radhachaddah.com
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Zarah Hussain works at the intersection of science and spirituality, combining contemporary digital art with rigorous training in traditional hand-drawn Islamic geometry. Her work encompasses infinitely looping animations made with code, interactive apps, painting and sculpture.
Her most recent project, Numina, was a large-scale sculpture with a digitally animated surface. Commissioned by the Barbican for their foyer spaces programme in 2016, Numina combined designs found in the art of the Islamic world with contemporary digital arts by mapping animated geometric patterns onto a pyramidal wall sculpture set in a hexagonal grid.
Hussain has completed several public art commissions, including a room in the new Royal London Hospital and an outdoor shutter project in Barking and Dagenham funded by the mayor of London’s Outer London Fund.
Visit Hussain's website: zarahhussain.co.uk
Bringing online Museum experiences to you is part of our mission to connect cultures and promote understanding between peoples. To learn more about how you can support the Museum by making a donation or becoming a Friend or Patron, please visit:
agakhanmuseum.org/support
