The multidisciplinary artist Rana Begum hails from Bangladesh, where she was born in 1977. Her parents were Muslim, and she remembers diligently reciting passages from the Quran as a child. Begum’s family moved to Britain in 1983, when she was only six, and today she considers herself Anglo-Bangladeshi. Growing up in Hertfordshire, and at university in London, she came across abstract artists who played with geometry—Agnes Martin, Donald Judd, Josef and Anni Albers. Their work felt rhythmic, like the religious recitations of her childhood. Begum’s installations, prints, and sculptures draw from those abstract masters but also from the geometries of Islam. —Elena Clavarino