24/4/2014
Soghra Khurasani
Tarq, Mumbai
One day it will come out. The display includes several forms of printmaking as well as new media work, through which the artist is able to explore and express ideas of beauty and violence.
curated by Hena Kapadia & Sumesh Sharma
TARQ is proud to present its second exhibition “One day it will come out” by Baroda based Soghra Khurasani, opening on Saturday 26th April 2014. This is the artist’s first solo show. The show looks into her complex practice, which revolves around her visceral reaction to the political and religious realities of being in India today. She keeps returning to the imagery of blood cells in her work, and thus systematically blurs the lines between powerful emotions and biological reality. The display includes several forms of printmaking as well as new media work, through which the artist is able to explore and express ideas of beauty and violence, using an incredible attention to detail. Her print works include the use of the woodcut, etching and serigraphy techniques. We are delighted to be able to display some of Soghra’s wood blocks, from which she has made the prints on display, as these are artworks in their own right, and are essential to understanding the artist’s process. The body of work is accompanied by a catalogue published in collaboration with the Clarke House Initiative, featuring an essay by Sumesh Sharma, who has been closely involved with Soghra’s practice.
- Hena Kapadia, co-curator, founder TARQ
About the artist:
Soghra Khurasani (1983) was raised in the city of Vishakhapatnam on India’s South-Eastern Coast. Concerned with the representation of women in visual culture and a gradual loss of voice of socially threatened minorities in India, Khurasani uses printmaking; sight specific installations that use cloth and wire mesh, and using the colour red, to voice her opinion. Her works are subtle, layered with art historical and social references that she narrates informed by her own tribulations with the world, through the use of visual metaphors that are appropriated to her feminist discourse. Soghra Khurasani is a Baroda based artist with a Master's Degree in Printmaking from the School of Fine Art, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda in 2010 and with an undergraduate degree in painting in 2008 from the Andhra University. She has worked at the SPACE Studio in Baroda and has exhibited her works in several group shows since 2008. Her works have been shown most recently at the Lalit Kala Akademi in Chennai. She last showed in Mumbai at the Clark House Initiative in 2013 as part of a group show titled 'Visual Evidence’. Over the last few years Soghra has participated in several group shows including the Kochi Biennale (Kochi), the Birla Academy of Art and Culture (Kolkata), United Art Fair (Delhi), India Foundation for the Arts, Gallery Sumukha, (Bangalore). She has also participated in the month-long Religare Arts Residency in New Delhi in 2011, where she was able to experiment with her practice in new media.
About the Gallery:
TARQ, Sanskrit for "discussion, abstract reasoning, logic and cause", is a new contemporary art gallery in Mumbai dedicated to growing a conversation around art from a diverse range of contexts. Located at Dhanraj Mahal, one of Mumbai's iconic Art Deco buildings a stone's throw away from the Gateway of India, TARQ is spread over two floors and 3000 sq. ft. Our focus is on maintaining close relationships with our artists and patrons, and to encourage thoughtful acquisitions of art. We plan on showing art that is process driven and provoking. Apart from our regular shows, we are also committed to building an educational structure that enables the art community to grow through thought, discussion and action.
About the Founder
Hena Kapadia is TARQ’s founder and gallery director. After majoring in Art History and Economics at Tufts University in Massachusetts, she completed her Masters Degree in Modern and Contemporary Art World Practice at Christie's Education, University of Glasgow in London. She has been involved in art world both in Mumbai and abroad in various capacities over the last five years.
Contact Details: +91 22 66150424 hena@tarq.in
Preview: Friday 25 April 2014 | 6pm-9pm
Tarq
F35/36 Dhanraj Mahal, C.S.M. Marg, Apollo Bunder, Colaba, Mumbai - 400 001.
Hours: 11am-6pm, Monday-Saturday