Yamini Nayar, One of These Days, 2009. C-type print, 36 x 48 in.
I really need to focus on work today so I am going to do a quick cut and paste update of the event tonight. Looking forward to going.
A Wild Gander
Artists from the South Asian Women's Creative Collective
Curated by Baseera Khan
March 25 – May 1, 2010
Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 24, 7 to 9 pm
Chitra Ganesh
Mala Iqbal
Jesal Kapadia
Yamini Nayar
Divya Mehra
The title of the exhibition, A Wild Gander: Artists from the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, is inspired by Joseph Campbell’s collection of essays, The Flight of the Wild Gander. Campbell’s title references the Sanskrit concept of the paramahamsa, an enlightened spiritual teacher who transcends the mundane, just as geese (hamsa) are able to transcend the earth through flight. According to Campbell, this sage feels equally at home on water and on land, just as the artists in this exhibition adeptly negotiate between disparate geopolitical cultural codes and spaces. Campbell also stresses that local myths inevitably contain new variations, cross-fertilizations, and the appropriation of old and new ideas.
And more info on BRIC in general here
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