Since 1970s Navjot Altaf has created an oeuvre which constitutes an ever-growing flow of video, sculptures, installations and site-specific works that negotiate various disciplinary boundaries. Since 1997 she has also been working in collaboration with indigenous artists and community members on ongoing ‘Nalpar’ sites and ‘Pilla Gudi’ -‘Art in public space’ projects in Bastar district.

Some of her works have been shown at KNMA New Delhi (2014), MMCA Korea (2013), Belgium, Germany, (2013), Japan (2012/13), Hamburg and Delhi, New York (2011), New Delhi and Mumbai (2010), Frost Art Museum, Florida, U.S.A.(2009), Mumbai, New Delhi (2008), Newark Museum New York, Minneapolis, and Boston, U.S.A. (2007), Lille, France, 15th Sydney Biennale, Australia (2006), Pittsburgh and New York, U.S.A.(2005 ), Lisbon and Geneva (2004), 8th Havana Biennale’, Cuba (2003), Tate Modern London.(2001), ‘First Fukuoka Asian Art Triennials’, Japan (1999). Oakland, California, Britain and Norway, Hong Kong, NGMA New Delhi (1997) Middlesbrough, UK (1996), Germany and Poland (1985).

WORK

Between Memory and History
by Navjot Altaf
Installation with Video
Sakshi Gal

Links Destroyed and Rediscovered
by Navjot Altaf
Installation with paintings, sculptures, photographs, films and music.
Jehangir G

Mumbai Meri Jaan
by Navjot Altaf
Video Installation
Sakshi Gal

ESSAYS

Lost Text

by Amrita Gupta Singh

The exhibition Lost Text at The Guild, Alibaug (February 25 - April 1, 2018) presented itself almost as a parenthesis in the artistic practice of Navjot Altaf, in its intimate and emblematic approach. Working with ideas of the transience of memory, Navjot delved into her Bastar diaries as the

Creation out of Chaos

by Navjot Altaf

The recent violence and destruction all over the country, and Bombay especially, led painted Navjyot to pour out her emotions in an unusual multimedia creation.

Destruction and violence have become a global phenomenon. The human mind which is so creative and inventive at one level, can also be

Navjot Altaf

Lost Text

Creation out of Chaos

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