Research Catalog

Title

Bharti Kher : matter.

Publication

• London, UK : Black Dog Publishing ; Vancouver, BC, Canada : Vancouver Art Gallery, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Augaitis, Daina
• Freundl, Diana
• Kher, Bharti, 1969-
• Vancouver Art Gallery, host institution

Description

143 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm

Summary

Bharti Kher is a contemporary Indian artist whose work encompasses painting, sculpture and installation. Relocating to New Delhi after studying art in Newcastle, UK, Kher's practice explores cultural misunderstandings and social codes. Hers is an art of dislocation and transience. Likening herself to the well intentioned ethnographer investigating her culture, Kher delivers a forceful reinterpretation of India s present and its history. Following an accidental encounter with a woman wearing a sperm bindi on her forehead, Kher made bindis a central motif in her practice. Bindis swarm over Kher s sculptures and are deployed in vivid chromatic constellations. Arranged en masse, each dot or squiggle can be understood as a person, their placement analogous to demographic movementthe migrations of a population. 'Bharti Kher' focuses on the artist s exploration of identity, aiming to bring together works that speak especially to the perceptions and realities of being female today. Exhibition: Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada (09.06.-10.10.2016).

Alternative Title

Matter

Subjects

• Exhibition catalogs
• Kher, Bharti, 1969- > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name organized as part of the Institute of Asian Art at the Vancouver Art Gallery and presented July 9-October 10, 2016.
• "Curators and editors: Daina Augaitis and Diana Freundl"--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

JQF 17-59

ISBN

• 1910433977
• 9781910433973
• 9781927656211
• 1927656214

OCLC

936534445

Title

Bharti Kher : matter.

Publisher

London, UK : Black Dog Publishing ; Vancouver, BC, Canada : Vancouver Art Gallery, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Augaitis, Daina, editor.

Freundl, Diana, editor.

Kher, Bharti, 1969- Works. Selections.

Vancouver Art Gallery, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 17-59