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Bharti Kher : matter.
- Title
- Bharti Kher : matter.
- Publication
- London, UK : Black Dog Publishing ; Vancouver, BC, Canada : Vancouver Art Gallery, [2016]
- ©2016
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- 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.00Exhibition: Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada (09.06.-10.10.2016).
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- exhibition catalogs.
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- 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.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Conditions of possibility : Bharti Kher's use of the bindi / Shanay Jhaveri -- The X-women : Bharti Kher's cyborg manifesto / Achal Prabhala -- Quite strangely masculine : Bharti Kher's androgynous women / Rebecca M. Brown -- The mismeasure of woman : destigmatizing the abnormal in Bharti Kher's art / Nancy Adajania -- What the body remembers / Ashok Mathur -- Seeing and not seeing : the mirror works of Bharti Kher / Daina Augaitis -- The poetry and politics of fabric in Bharti Kher's sari portraits / Diana Freundi -- A journey in energy / Prerna Singh.
- ISBN
- 1910433977
- 9781910433973
- 9781927656211
- 1927656214
- OCLC
- 936534445
- SCSB-10001109
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library