Nature Morte is set to present a solo of new works by acclaimed artist Bharti Kher. Looking to expand her vast repertoire of an array of materials and references, she has come up with new sculptures that relate largely to domestic spaces, and respond to the gallery’s interior architecture itself – a chair, a staircase, and a doorway - isolated and re-imagined, creatively installed so as to become apparitions of themselves or eclectic elements in a sort of hallucinatory stage set.
An introductory note to the exhibition, entitled ‘Bind the dream state to your waking life’, states: “Bharti Kher’s sculptures now employ a complex dialogue between the found object and their manipulation through juxtapositions and various processes. She both excavates and destabilizes the inherent meanings found in common objects to arrive at poetic conjunctions that speak of social tensions and personal discoveries (for the viewer as much as for the artist herself).”
Born in London in 1969, Bharti Kher received a BA in Painting from the Newcastle Polytechnic in Newcastle, UK in 1991. She has been based in New Delhi since 1993. Her recent solos have been hosted at the Parasol unit in London, Hauser & Wirth in New York and Galerie Perrotin in Hong Kong, apart from a series of group exhibitions at prestigious venues like the Centre Pompidou in Paris; the MAXXI Museum in Rome; the John F. Kennedy Center, Washington D.C.; the Serpentine Gallery, London; the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Mori Art Museum, both in Tokyo, among others.
Also on view as part of the new solo show, will be her signature bewildering bindi works that occupy the space of painting yet expand upon its histories and possibilities. Now approaching a monumental scale, these works contrast minute detailing with an almost panoramic scope. A large diptych makes use of mirrors, smashed and violated, as its ground. Bindis applied on to this shattered reflective surface are subsumed into it, the artwork acts as a residual evidence of a performative catharsis as a whole, a gallery note mentions.
Another diptych has bindis organized along a more formalized program; their geometric progressions relate to the warp and weft of woven carpets, the patterning of Islamic architecture, the molecular ordering of matter itself or the digitization of both information and imagery.
An introductory note to the exhibition, entitled ‘Bind the dream state to your waking life’, states: “Bharti Kher’s sculptures now employ a complex dialogue between the found object and their manipulation through juxtapositions and various processes. She both excavates and destabilizes the inherent meanings found in common objects to arrive at poetic conjunctions that speak of social tensions and personal discoveries (for the viewer as much as for the artist herself).”
Born in London in 1969, Bharti Kher received a BA in Painting from the Newcastle Polytechnic in Newcastle, UK in 1991. She has been based in New Delhi since 1993. Her recent solos have been hosted at the Parasol unit in London, Hauser & Wirth in New York and Galerie Perrotin in Hong Kong, apart from a series of group exhibitions at prestigious venues like the Centre Pompidou in Paris; the MAXXI Museum in Rome; the John F. Kennedy Center, Washington D.C.; the Serpentine Gallery, London; the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Mori Art Museum, both in Tokyo, among others.
Also on view as part of the new solo show, will be her signature bewildering bindi works that occupy the space of painting yet expand upon its histories and possibilities. Now approaching a monumental scale, these works contrast minute detailing with an almost panoramic scope. A large diptych makes use of mirrors, smashed and violated, as its ground. Bindis applied on to this shattered reflective surface are subsumed into it, the artwork acts as a residual evidence of a performative catharsis as a whole, a gallery note mentions.
Another diptych has bindis organized along a more formalized program; their geometric progressions relate to the warp and weft of woven carpets, the patterning of Islamic architecture, the molecular ordering of matter itself or the digitization of both information and imagery.
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