Injurious Forms: Review of the staging of Bharti Kher's Strange Attractors
by Subha Mukherji As one enters the main exhibition space of Nature Morte’s new gallery in a converted granary at Chattarpur, Delhi, minimalistically designed by Tushant Bansal, one is confronted by a Strange Attractor. She welcomes the visitor with a clay dish perched on her proto-phallic shaft-except
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by Gayatri Sinha Gayatri Sinha: On my way here I was thinking that everything that you do is about balance. A lot of the sculptures for instance, or the work you’ve done earlier was about retrieval, the found, the old, the rejected by time, the dentures, the body parts, the skeletons…and even if the work didn’t have
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by Peter Nagy Transience seems to be a marked characteristic of our times, as populations shift, as communications enable people to roam more frequently. While many people continue to choose to migrate out of India, certainly a reversal of this pattern is starting to be noticeable. With greater economic and social
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by Gayatri Sinha From the exhibition catalogue published by Parasol Unit (2013)
Bharti Kher’s work never fails to carry within its deepest core a sign, waiting to be touched and unraveled [1]. This may be because each work is the consequence of slow gestation and embedded conversations, at it assumes lives, negotiates
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