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Email PageWinged Pilgrims: A Chronicle from Asia
November 13, 2008- December 23, 2008
Reception: November 13, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Sheba Chhachhi
Bose Pacia Gallery
508 W 26th StWinged Pilgrims: A Chronicle from Asia is a multi-part installation including sculptures, lightboxes, and a recorded soundtrack which plays throughout the gallery space. The combined works present various iconographies (such as birds, landscapes, and robed figures) whose interplay conveys a history of migration. The migration in question is personal, theoretical, cultural, and philosophical. The series can be seen as a meditation on the expanse and intricacies of globalization.
Perhaps the most poignant element in this installation, Chhachhi’s lightboxes imitate the ‘Plasma Action Electronic TV toy.’ This object is a Chinese-made toy that is sold in many small Indian markets. The toy in a low-tech impersonation of an electronic plasma television. An image-on-roller continuously loops to give the impression of a moving-image television. Chhachhi has referred to these objects as “a metaphor for current forms of globalized exchange that enact mediated shifts from the artisanal to the inexpensive electronic assembly.”
Chhachhi’s Winged Pilgrims series is an innovative take on the questions of new media and globalization. Images of migrating birds, the robes of Buddhist pilgrims, and the exchange of technological aesthetics create a platform for these questions. By exploring the sort of reverse evolution of digital technology and migration the artist makes space for a discussion of globalization where traditional trajectories of advancement are can be destabilized and opened for discussion.
Originally created for the Singapore Biennale in September 2006, the work has also been exhibited at the ZKM Center for Art & Media in Karlsruhe, Germany as part of the exhibition Thermocline of Art: New Asian Wave (June 15-October 21, 2007), at the Hangar Biccoca in Milan, Italy as part of the exhibition Urban Manners (October 9, 2007 – January 6, 2008), and at Nature Morte in New Delhi (December 22, 2007 – January 19, 2008).
Sheba Chhachhi was born in Harar (Ethiopia) and studied at Delhi University and the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. She has exhibited widely in India, Europe, Japan, South America and the United States. This is Chhachhi’s first solo exhibition with Bose Pacia. She has published writings, given talks and conducted workshops, research, and projects relating to women, conflict, urban technologies, visual culture, and contemporary practice in India and South Asia and is an active member of the women’s movement in India. She lives and works in Delhi.
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