Art Production Fund’s “Art in Focus” program is starting the year with a sense of optimism and beauty with a multi-faceted installation by Hiba Schahbaz at Rockefeller Center in New York. On view through May 1, “In My Heart” includes a selection of site-specific installations, large and small murals, works on paper, and more.
Painted cutout works feature mythological garden scenes and lounging female figures—a regular theme in Schahbaz’s work that here intends to create a calm space for healing amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Along that creative thread, the Brooklyn-based artist filled the plaza’s concourse display with a 125-foot long site-specific mural, designed to narrate a scene depicting life’s journey.
