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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Reena Saini Kallat, Woven Chronicle, 2011-2016
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Reena Saini Kallat, Woven Chronicle, 2011-2016
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Reena Saini Kallat Indian, b. 1973

Woven Chronicle, 2011-2016
Circuit boards, speakers, electrical wires and fittings
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Installation view, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2016
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Treating electric wires as if they were yarn, Kallat created a woven map tracing the routes of contract workers, indentured labourers, asylum seekers, refugees, and other migrants across the planet....
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Treating electric wires as if they were yarn, Kallat created a woven map tracing the routes of contract workers, indentured labourers, asylum seekers, refugees, and other migrants across the planet. The wires act as both conduits and barriers, simultaneously referring to global networks of communication and commerce as well as to barbed wires or fences. The work highlights the inherent contradiction in celebrating an increasingly connected world while stringent immigration laws, closed borders and prejudice face individuals seeking to transgress geographic boundaries. From within the woven web resonates a mixture of high-voltage electric currents, deep-sea ambient noise, slow electric pulses, the hum of engaged phone tones, a mechanical drone, factory sirens, ship horns, and migratory bird calls. These sounds awaken the map, transforming the cartographic work into a dynamic entity.
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Exhibitions

2020 When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art curated by Eva Respini and Ruth Erickson, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, USA | 2019 When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art, curated by Eva Respini and Ruth Erickson, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston | 2018 Facing India, curated by Dr. Uta Ruhkamp, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany | 2016 Insecurities: tracing Displacement and Shelter, organized by Sean Anderson and Ariele Dionne-Krosnick, The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York

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