“I have aimed at creating work with unpredictable diversity in pursuit of a multifaceted imagination,” the Pakistani-American artist Shahzia Sikander has said, “open to influences and experiences.” Sikander began her practice experimenting with Indo-Persian miniature painting, and from there expanded into drawing, animation, installations, video, and film. She refers to the space between thinking and painting as “fiddling,” and says that entering this space leads to fluidity of thought and a crystallization of ideas. Sikander’s work is ethereal, historical, political, and delicately dreamlike, all at once. This mid-career retrospective includes The Scroll (1989-90), a thesis project from the National College of Arts in Lahore, and NOW (2023), a monumental bronze sculpture. —Elena Clavarino