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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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Additional Authors
  • Augaitis, Daina
  • Freundl, Diana
  • Kher, Bharti, 1969-
  • Jhaveri, Shanay.
  • Vancouver Art Gallery, host institution, publisher.
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).
Alternative Title
Matter
Subject
  • Kher, Bharti, 1969- > Exhibitions
  • Kher, Bharti, 1969- > Expositions
  • Kher, Bharti, 1969-
Genre/Form
  • exhibition catalogs.
  • catalogs (documents)
  • Catalogs.
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Catalogues d'exposition.
  • Catalogues.
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