Chitra Ganesh
dal 14/6/2012 al 29/9/2012
Segnalato da
14/6/2012
Chitra Ganesh
Goteborg Konsthall, Goteborg
This year's summer exhibition feature the internationally acclaimed New York-based artist. The show presents a wide selection of her works consisting of drawings, videos, photography and collage.
For the first time in Scandinavia, Göteborgs Konsthall presents a solo-exhibition by the internationally acclaimed artist Chitra Ganesh (b. 1975). This visually vibrant exhibition features a generous selection of works in drawing, video, photography, and collage. In addition, a range of works will be produced exclusively for Göteborgs Konsthall.
Chitra Ganesh, of Indian origin, born and brought up in the USA, garners her inspiration from a rich palette of references. Her works are centered on mythologies and epic narratives of Hindu, Greek, and Buddhist origin as well as more contemporary visual expressions from Bollywood, 1960s psychedelia, science fiction, feminist fanzines, and comic books. Ganesh narrates a space where myth encounters history. With a steady hand, Ganesh dissects the epic narratives and positions the female characters, who usually operate at the margins of the heroic myths, as central protagonists. In her imagery, women are powerful rebels who challenge their own destinies and those of others in imaginative and erotically-charged stories with surrealist features.
Chitra Ganesh received her BA from Brown University in 1996 in Comparative Literature and Art-Semiotics, and her MFA from Colombia University in 2002. Early in her career, Ganesh became interested in the encounter between visual- and text-based narratives. Thus, several of her works are centred on text, guiding the viewer through the course of history and a world filled with power struggles, desire, lust, and loss.
For many years Chitra Ganesh has worked with the organisation South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC), which is dedicated to enhance the visibility and further the advancement of South Asian women artists. Ganesh has exhibited at, among others, PS1 MoMA, New York; Brooklyn Museum; and The Andy Warhol Museum, New York; as well as internationally at Saatchi Gallery, London and Gwangju Contemporary Art Museum, South Korea. In 2012 she was the recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.
Information and press coordinator
Irmelin Joelson, phone: +46 (0)31-368 34 55, email: irmelin.joelson@kultur.goteborg.se
Opening Friday, June 15 at. 17:00 - 21:00 and then on the Locatelli
17:30 Inauguration. Welcoming words by director Michael Nanfeldt and curator Stina Edblom introduces the exhibition
18:00 - 21:00 Opening Party on the backside of konsthallen. Concert with the Belgian band Hoquets and Gothenburg-based Slow Gold (in partnership with Koloni)
21:00 Afterparty at Locatelli with DJ Various Artists
Goteborgs Konsthall
Gotaplatsen SE- 412 56 Goteborg Sweden
Hours
Tuesday - Thursday 11.00-18.00
Wednesday 11.00 - 20.00
Friday - Sunday 11.00-17.00
Monday closed
Admission is always free