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Announcing Rakhi Peswani’s
participation at the 14th Curitiba International Biennial
The Guild Art Gallery is pleased to share the
news that Rakhi Peswani’s installation titled Reinforcements
for the Displaced has
been chosen to be exhibited at the 14th Curitiba International
Biennial at Brazil. The Curitiba Biennial titled ‘Open Borders’
opens on September 21st 2019 and continues until February 23rd
2020. This event is jointly curated by
Adolfo Montejo Navas and Tereza de Arruda.
Rakhi Peswani’s works in the series
Reinforcements
for the Displaced
(2012-2013) is
made of fabric panels that are displayed suspended; the space
made to appear like free floating pages of a torn book or diary.
Each panel features text that has been incised by burning
incense stick through the fabric, in a way, accentuating the
feeling of loss and desolation and yet, in these quotes from
various authors (–Frantz Fanon, Adrienne Rich, Tony Morrison,
Susan Sontag, Adil Jussawalla, Julia Kristeva), there emerges a
will to articulate the struggle. One of the panels also features
text embroidered by safety pins. As the concept note from the
artist reads, “Quotations, taken from certain authors, are
rendered by the processes of burning and embroidery, to produce
spatial metaphors of loss, absence and fragility. The panels are
suspended in the space to appear like free floating pages of a
torn book or diary. The words on these pages are portrayed as
handwritten, either by removing the letters (burning), or by
pricking pins on the ‘pages’. The meticulousness of the process
of hand embroidery is used to create fragility of temporality.
The quotations that are chosen, also represent the tremendous
kinds of emotional losses that are experienced by the itinerant
migrant. The words, etched out off the surface leave the words
absent in space, providing light shadows, moving in ethereal,
legible and illegible forms, like the loss of language itself.”
About Rakhi Peswani
Rakhi Peswani (b. 1977, India) has
an academic training in Painting and Ceramic Sculpture from M.
S. University of Baroda. Her works explore association with
labour and craftsmanship and the consequences on mundane
objects, materials, experiences and many aspects of our
environment.
Peswani’s solo shows include, ‘Conditions of Infirmity’ and
‘Anatomy of Silence’ at The Guild 2019 and 2013 respectively;
‘Matters Under the Skin’ at Art HK – Asia One represented by The
Guild, Mumbai, Hong Kong 2011; ‘Intertwinings’ and ‘In
Continuum’ at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, in 2009 &
2015; ‘Sonnetfor Silent Machines’ at Jehangir Nicholson Gallery
and The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai, in 2007; and at the Birla
Academy of Art and Culture, Mumbai, in 2006.
Her Museum/institutional participations include ‘Connecting
Threads: Textiles in Contemporary Practice’, Bhau Daji Lad
Museum, Mumbai (2018);
‘Here and
Beyond’ at Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori, Japan, 2017;
‘Trans-Feminism. Alternate Perspectives and Beyond’ at Korean
Cultural Centre, Delhi, 2016; ‘Making History’ Colombo Art
Biennale (2014); ‘Ghar Ghar Ki Baat, Tales from Two Homes’ at
Margaret Lawrence Gallery, University of Melbourne, Australia
(2013); Hangzhou Triennale of Fiber Arts, at Zhejiang Art
Museum, Hangzhou, PRC (2013); ‘Zones of Contact: propositions on
the Museum’, co-curated by Vidya Shivadas, Akansha Rastogi,
Deeksha Nath, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Noida,
2013; ‘Generation in Transition: New Art from India’, at the
Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland and
Vilnius Art Centre, Lithuania, in 2011; ‘Bring me a Lion’ at
Webster University, Missouri, 2010.
Peswani has been the recipient of Emerging Artist Award,
presented by Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA) 2007
and Inlaks Scholarship for the UNIDEE in residence at
Cittadellarte, Fondazione Pistoletto in 2006. She has previously
taught at Hyderabad Central University, Hyderabad; Ambedkar
University, Delhi. She is currently working as a Guest Faculty
at Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru.
About Curitiba Biennial
The Curitiba Biennial is an important biennale in Brazil. It was
conceived in 1990. It has had thirteen editions before. Besides
the contemporary art exhibitions, cinema and literature, the
Curitiba Biennial also organizes annual circuits and parallel
programs, with the intent to expand and solidify its local ties
with museums, galleries, universities. The thematic proposal is
a dialogue of deconstruction of the notions of physical
boundaries, and the transformations they undergo over time and
from the relations between subject and space.
About The Guild
Established in 1997 in Mumbai, India, The Guild Art Gallery has
been focussing on discovering, promoting and exhibiting emerging
and mid-career and senior Indian artists. The gallery has been
providing platform for discursive practices, innovation and
experimentation by functioning as a semi-institutional space. It
believes in promoting critical and rigorous practices and ideas
and our programming reflects this critical practice. Our
exhibitions are planned with public outreach activities like
film screenings, artists’ workshops, studio workshops, panels
and talks. We believe in building an extensive scholarship on
art and have continuously been publishing high-standard books
and catalogues authored by well-known academicians and art
critics. The forthcoming exhibitions include the retrospective
of Sudhir Patwardhan - 'Walking Through Soul City, Sudhir
Patwardhan: A Retrospective', curated by Nancy Adajania at
National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai in collaboration with The
Guild. Forthcoming publications: N. N. Rimzon. Navjot Altaf.
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