Eye of Art #6 Part 2 : Bharti Kher
A weekly series to share my art discovery with first the work that caught my eye...
It's just to post some photos taken during my last visit to the exhibition Points de Départ Points qui Lient de Bharti Kher at DHC/ART (Montreal, Canada) until September 9th (Free Admission). As I don't find pictures about her series with old maps and bindis, I went back to take a closer look to this works.
I don't like taking pictures of paintings because it doesn't do justice to the works, always better to see them in real life.
WHO
Born in 1969 in London, Bharti Kher is an Indian artist with a degree in painting at Newcatle Polytechnic in 1991. After her studies, in 1993, she flipped a coin, heads New-York, tails New Delhi. And the destiny decided direction India and her work has changed completely with the energy of the country, a time of tensions between the old and the new.
My post Eye of Art #6 about Bharti Kher
WHAT
Bharti Kher found maps in old Larousse Atlas published in 1947 (one year after the Indian Independence). She works with bindis on it.
She explains it :
"* the myth of maps is about human endeavoir and magic... They haul propaganda and the scholarly cartographers across pages that mark and scrsatch and flag... My maps are sometimes entries into the spaces of losing yourself as they go nowhere and everywhere... The bindis mark human positions and remnants of memory. They're residues of the soul*." - Correspondence with Cheryl Sim, Curator of the exhibition.
Sources
Bharti Kher at Gallery Perrotin
DHC/ART
On Wiki :
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