Artists for Artists: Rai: Fever
Experimenter presents Artists for Artists, four solo projects across both gallery spaces in Kolkata. Each practitioner has been selected by an artist from the gallery鈥檚 program. The exhibition attempts to establish how artists, whether through long-form conversations in each other鈥檚 studios or outside of the confines of their workplaces, can yield generous and productive ground for experimentation and sustained dialogue. Artists for Artists marks Experimenter鈥檚 16th anniversary and is rooted in the gallery鈥檚 commitment to amplifying diverse practices, a value that has been pivotal to its programming over the years.
Rai works across various media such as images, text, and installations that explore states of inconsistency and suspension within themes of spatial negotiations, permeability, impression and erasure, recollection and amnesia. In Fever, she presents parts from three ongoing bodies of work鈥擣ever, Search Party, and Ngan & Nilnil鈥攚hich form a constellation of inquiries into movement, inheritance, belonging, and becoming. They explore ways of how we notice, absorb, and relate to the world around us and how its vastness influences the intimate. While the series Fever focuses on a state of transformation; a disruption of the body's rhythm - through familial threads, Search Party concocts an array of objects that are layered with traces鈥攕ome visible, others concealed. In the Ngan and Nilnil series, Rai renders sites of simultaneous presence and absence, where memory becomes a connecting node.
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Experimenter presents Artists for Artists, four solo projects across both gallery spaces in Kolkata. Each practitioner has been selected by an artist from the gallery鈥檚 program. The exhibition attempts to establish how artists, whether through long-form conversations in each other鈥檚 studios or outside of the confines of their workplaces, can yield generous and productive ground for experimentation and sustained dialogue. Artists for Artists marks Experimenter鈥檚 16th anniversary and is rooted in the gallery鈥檚 commitment to amplifying diverse practices, a value that has been pivotal to its programming over the years.
Rai works across various media such as images, text, and installations that explore states of inconsistency and suspension within themes of spatial negotiations, permeability, impression and erasure, recollection and amnesia. In Fever, she presents parts from three ongoing bodies of work鈥擣ever, Search Party, and Ngan & Nilnil鈥攚hich form a constellation of inquiries into movement, inheritance, belonging, and becoming. They explore ways of how we notice, absorb, and relate to the world around us and how its vastness influences the intimate. While the series Fever focuses on a state of transformation; a disruption of the body's rhythm - through familial threads, Search Party concocts an array of objects that are layered with traces鈥攕ome visible, others concealed. In the Ngan and Nilnil series, Rai renders sites of simultaneous presence and absence, where memory becomes a connecting node.Artists on show
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