Nilima Sheikhs art practice from 1969 to 2012 forms the subject of Trace Retrace. The book is structured in three parts: visual, discursive, and a combination of the two. The largest narrative is visual-a selection from Nilima Sheikhs paintings in diverse formats, chosen to signal the artists commitment to process, and to indicate the way her paintings slide into, work with and against each other, and propose a meandering seriality. The often extensive ...