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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Jitish Kallat, Eclipse, 2007

Jitish Kallat b. 1974

Eclipse, 2007
Pigment Print on Hahnemuhle Photorag Archival Paper
10 part work, each:
29 x 21.5 in
73.66 x 54.61 cm
Edition 2 of 10 + 2 AP
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Eclipse is a ten part black and white photo-piece that might collectively appear like planetary forms or astral imagery. In fact the forms derive from medical DICOM outputs realised in...
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Eclipse is a ten part black and white photo-piece that might collectively appear like planetary forms or astral imagery. In fact the forms derive from medical DICOM outputs realised in a doctor's radiology lab by placing platters of food on a x-ray bed. The x-ray image was then converted into photographs black background could be seen as reminiscent of an empty night sky onto which an eclipse is inscribed. Exploring the formal analogies of planetary forms and food, Eclipse in is line with Jitish Kallat's piece Conditions Apply.
In the later piece the phases of the waxing and waning moon where represented through the “roti” or Indian bread. The “roti”, a staple diet in India, is a metaphor of sustenance, there one day and vanishing the next,
much like the cycle of the moon that oscillates between abundance and dearth. Likewise the immersive video 'Forensic Trail of the Grand Banquet' refers to a cosmic field through x-ray images of food. An image of sustenance evokes notions of galaxies and orbits that change their forms from small seeds to giant like structures traveling through the cosmic field like stellar remnants.
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'Eclipse' is a ten part black and white photo-piece that might collectively resemble planetary forms or astral imagery. In fact the forms derive from medical DICOm outputs realised in a doctor's radiology lab by placing platters of food on a x-ray bed. The x-ray image was then converted into photographs whose black background could be seen as reminiscent of an empty night sky onto which an eclipse is inscribed. The food plates were essentially Bombay street-food, that is not only staple diet to many but also one with a universal appeal. Food/Roti (through the waxing and waning of the moon) is a metaphoric image that recurs in Kallat's work - the probability of having a whole roti on one day, half of it on another or none of it (on a no moon day).
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