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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Reena Saini Kallat, Hyphenated Lives, 2016
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Reena Saini Kallat, Hyphenated Lives, 2016
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Reena Saini Kallat, Hyphenated Lives, 2016
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Reena Saini Kallat Indian, b. 1973

Hyphenated Lives, 2016
Gouache, charcoal, ink and electric wire on handmade paper,
black boards, wooden vitrines, unfired clay, postcard
Installation view, Kiswire Suyeong Factory, 10th Busan Biennale, Korea
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Hyphenated Lives is a museum within the museum, a menagerie of imaginary beasts, birds and plants created by fusing together the national symbols of hostile states around the world. The...
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Hyphenated Lives is a museum within the museum, a menagerie of imaginary beasts, birds and plants created by fusing together the national symbols of hostile states around the world. The hybrids have been given hyphenated names signalling their origins: ti-khor is the fusion of tiger and markhor, the national animals of India and Pakistan (both countries are perpetually at the brink of war over boundary claims). Similarly, cyoak is a hybrid formed from montezuma bald cyprus and oak, the national trees of Mexico and the USA respectively. By assembling drawings, sculptures and postcards of these hybrid animals on walls and a vitrine in the style of a natural history display, the artist creates a serene, mythic narrative of convergence, subtly subverting the appropriation of nature to serve nationalist ideologies. The images are interrupted in places by barbed wires that evoke makeshift, militarised boundaries across the world where the fragile artifice that is the nation state is zealously and violently guarded every day. Newspaper clippings within the installation echo the absurdity of boundaries; highlighting instances where nature infiltrates manmade divisions.
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Exhibitions

2019 Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, curated by Catherine Crowston and Jonathan Shaughnessy, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada | 2019 Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, curated by Catherine Crowston and Jonathan Shaughnessy, The Art Museum of the University of Toronto | 2018 Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, curated by Catherine Crowston and Jonathan Shaughnessy, Art Gallery of Alberta and National Gallery of Canada | 2018 Facing India, curated by Dr. Uta Ruhkamp, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany | 2016 Hybridizing Earth, Discussing Multitude, 10th Busan Biennale, curated by Cheagab Yun, Kiswire Suyeong factory, Busan, South Korea | 2015 Porous Passages, Nature Morte, New Delhi | 2015 Hyphenated Lives, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai

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