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Aesthetic Bind: Floating World: 50 Years of Chemould | Group Show

Archive exhibition
19 March - 17 April 2014
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Reena Saini Kallat Woven Chronicle, 2011-2016 Circuit boards, speakers, electrical wires and fittings Site-specific Installation view, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2016
Reena Saini Kallat
Woven Chronicle, 2011-2016
Circuit boards, speakers, electrical wires and fittings
Site-specific
Installation view, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2016

Among several imaginaries conjured by the Floating World, there is cosmology and a revolving earth-world; oceanic flows and cartographic representation of the globe’s topography; and an incremental growth in migration, transmission and transcultural traffic.

 

[In art history, Floating World is known to be the translated designation of Japanese Ukiyo-e woodcut prints produced during 17th to 19th centuries in Edo/Tokyo for a wealthy trading class in liaison with courtesans, actors and eccentrics—with themes extending also to landscapes, mythic tales and historical narratives.]

 

In the present exhibition, the sense of being afloat is diversely manifested: from the medieval Mappamundi in medallion form to a woven and wired world map; from parched earth-folds to river sacraments to the sail-and-tent of a voyager. From lofty cities to sleepers on the ground to paper scrolls that chart miniature homes or unravel a private life. From pendulum lamps to suspended texts…there is resilience, levitation and a passage across.

 

In a sense, the act of painting/ ‘crafting’ is itself in command of metaphors, so with all its thematic allusions, the Floating World is an exhibition calling attention to the surface of the image and image as surface.

 

Geeta Kapur,

New Delhi,

March 3, 2014

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Installation Views
  • Aesthetic Bind: Floating World, display view, 2014
    Aesthetic Bind: Floating World, display view, 2014
  • Aesthetic Bind: Floating World, display view, 2014
    Aesthetic Bind: Floating World, display view, 2014
  • Aesthetic Bind: Floating World, display view, 2014
    Aesthetic Bind: Floating World, display view, 2014
  • Aesthetic Bind: Floating World, display view, 2014
    Aesthetic Bind: Floating World, display view, 2014
  • Reena Saini Kallat, Woven Chronicle, 2011-2016
    Reena Saini Kallat, Woven Chronicle, 2011-2016
  • Dhruvi Acharya, 1994-2014, 2014
    Dhruvi Acharya, 1994-2014, 2014
  • Atul Bhalla, Yamuna Evening III, 2008

    Atul Bhalla, Yamuna Evening III, 2008

  • Gulammohammed Sheikh, Mappamundi - Trouble Terrains, 2004

    Gulammohammed Sheikh, Mappamundi - Trouble Terrains, 2004

  • Gulammohammed Sheikh, Mappamundi - Whose World ?, 2004

    Gulammohammed Sheikh, Mappamundi - Whose World ?, 2004

Publications
  • Aesthetic Bind

    Aesthetic Bind

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