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As If - III Country of the Sea
dal 21/2/2015 al 1/4/2015
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Tasneem Zakaria Mehta



 
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21/2/2015

As If - III Country of the Sea

Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai

A survey of the collaborative studio CAMP's five-year Wharfage project and related maritime explorations. The center-piece of this exhibition is CAMP's much-travelled film 'From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf'.


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Curated by Tasneem Zakaria Mehta

Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum presents the third edition of Mumbai based collaborative studio CAMP’s pan-india, 4 part solo As If (I-IV), which gathers the artworks and ideas crafted by CAMP as a group since 2007, and by its constituent individuals since 2002, for the first time in solo exhibition form. 'Country of the Sea', is a survey of CAMP’s five-year Wharfage project and related maritime explorations. The center-piece of this exhibition is CAMP’s much-travelled film 'From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf' in its India premiere, presented in the heart of the museum, transforming its historic environment into a cinematic space. Country of the Sea is an exhibition bringing together CAMP’s long term maritime-world project in and around the western Indian Ocean, presented for the first time in Mumbai. A six-year collaboration with sailors and others who live and work on the edges of this vast landscape from Kuwait to Mombasa, along the Indian, Iranian, East African and Arab coasts lies at the heart of this project, which has taken many forms.

An unusual map which shares its name with the exhibition title has been produced by CAMP in collaboration with young artists from Clark House Initiative, especially for this Museum exhibition. The work is inspired by a remarkable Gujarati chart of the Gulf of Aden dated around 1810, in which we see a drawing of Arabian and Somali coasts close together like two bodies almost about to touch. The map the artists have produced remarkable for its scale - 20 feet by 5 feet - is a poignant reminder of the long ago fracture of the continental drift which is now bridged by the ubiquitous sea trade manned by Gujarati sailors since the 17th century. In Country of the Sea, the coastlines now come closer together and evoke the cultural proximities and divides produced by these seas, so important to the city of Mumbai which also features prominently at one of its edges.

CAMP's work over several years, has mapped through film, text and systemic interventions the living histories of sailors and port labourers and workers on the edges of the trade agendas of countries and corporations. These communities have been living on the sea in a sense and are almost forgotten by the state and the trading houses. They come together in a moving spirit of fraternity, gathering into their fold disparate cultures brought together by the sea and the exigencies of their livelihood. A series of works narrate these lives capturing their pathos and humour.

The exhibition is a continuation of the Museum’s curatorial series, ‘Engaging traditions’, which invites contemporary artists to engage with the Museum’s history and collection. Through the series, artists are invited to respond to the Museum’s collection, history and archives, addressing issues that speak directly to the traditions and issues that underlie the founding of the Museum, yet evoke the present by challenging orthodoxies and questioning assumptions.

- Tasneem Zakaria Mehta

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Bhau Dhaji Lad Museum
Veer Mata Jijabai Bhosale Udyan (Rani Baug), 91/A, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Road Byculla East, Mumbai 400027, Maharashtra, India
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As If - III Country of the Sea
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