Sheher, Prakriti, Devi
Sheher, Prakriti, Devi marks artist and photographer Gauri Gill鈥檚 first extensive curation in an art context. Ruminating on the interwoven relationship between dynamic cities, the natural environment and the inseparable sacred, the show presents twelve artists and collectives working across diverse contexts of urban, rural, domestic, communitarian, public and non-material spaces.
Sheher, Prakriti, Devi comes from the Hindustani terms for 鈥榗ity鈥�, 鈥榥ature鈥� and 鈥榙eity鈥�. The exhibition germinates from Gill鈥檚 ongoing documentation of urban and semi-urban spaces in India since 2003 in a series titled 鈥楻ememory鈥� (after Toni Morrison). Gill offers a unique lens to regard cities as spaces of habitation that are shaped by multiple life-worlds. Together with various practitioners with whom she shares an affinity, the exhibition presents a world where built and natural structures are rendered porous by termites; gates open to unfinished roads; historical ruins become homes to migratory birds while pigeons become occupants of post-colonial houses; locusts bear witness to contemporary terrors and forests manifest as spirit sisters. In this show, viewers are invited to regard ecology as an overlap of cultural, natural and spiritual domains.
In Gill鈥檚 words, 鈥淎part from the sheer beauty and multiple truths expressed by the different artists 鈥� from the mundane to the transcendental, the gross to the subtle, and, the manmade to the sacred 鈥� through this palimpsestic and idiosyncratic exhibition, I wish to acknowledge those who have found ways to stubbornly persist in their practice, often sharing their work only within their families and local communities, completely outside the circuits and networks of professional artists, contemporary art discourse, galleries and markets鈥� Through this gathering of insistent voices we hope to consider the dualistic worlds of the depleted and regenerative, manmade and natural, colonial and Indigenous, young and old, English and non-English, mundane and magical, absent and present.鈥�
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Sheher, Prakriti, Devi marks artist and photographer Gauri Gill鈥檚 first extensive curation in an art context. Ruminating on the interwoven relationship between dynamic cities, the natural environment and the inseparable sacred, the show presents twelve artists and collectives working across diverse contexts of urban, rural, domestic, communitarian, public and non-material spaces.
Sheher, Prakriti, Devi comes from the Hindustani terms for 鈥榗ity鈥�, 鈥榥ature鈥� and 鈥榙eity鈥�. The exhibition germinates from Gill鈥檚 ongoing documentation of urban and semi-urban spaces in India since 2003 in a series titled 鈥楻ememory鈥� (after Toni Morrison). Gill offers a unique lens to regard cities as spaces of habitation that are shaped by multiple life-worlds. Together with various practitioners with whom she shares an affinity, the exhibition presents a world where built and natural structures are rendered porous by termites; gates open to unfinished roads; historical ruins become homes to migratory birds while pigeons become occupants of post-colonial houses; locusts bear witness to contemporary terrors and forests manifest as spirit sisters. In this show, viewers are invited to regard ecology as an overlap of cultural, natural and spiritual domains.
In Gill鈥檚 words, 鈥淎part from the sheer beauty and multiple truths expressed by the different artists 鈥� from the mundane to the transcendental, the gross to the subtle, and, the manmade to the sacred 鈥� through this palimpsestic and idiosyncratic exhibition, I wish to acknowledge those who have found ways to stubbornly persist in their practice, often sharing their work only within their families and local communities, completely outside the circuits and networks of professional artists, contemporary art discourse, galleries and markets鈥� Through this gathering of insistent voices we hope to consider the dualistic worlds of the depleted and regenerative, manmade and natural, colonial and Indigenous, young and old, English and non-English, mundane and magical, absent and present.鈥�
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