[Reader-list] Someone draws a flower on a wall beside a bed - an exhibition

[Iram Ghufran]

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> Someone draws a flower on a wall beside a bed - an exhibition
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> Alana Victoria Hunt <skyabovetheclouds at gmail.com>
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> Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:39:57 +0530
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> */Someone draws a flower on a wall beside a bed/*
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> *An act, an image, a possibility*
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> Exhibition opening: Tuesday 4^th August, 2009, 6-8pm.
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> The title of this exhibition is a simple sentence that presents us 
> with an act, an image, and a possibility. It evokes a certain kind of 
> poetic potentiality in the everyday, and opens a door for exploration 
> into things that can be simultaneously meaningless and meaningful 
> depending on how and from where you’re looking and feeling.
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> /Someone draws a flower on a wall beside a bed /draws upon this 
> potentiality in order to open up a space in which to creatively 
> explore and discuss the idea of the life in art.
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> The exhibition will bring together a range of eclectic works which 
> respond to the central concerns of the exhibition in diverse, engaging 
> and at times wonderfully contradictory ways.
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> There will be bread from Kashmir, painting as digital confetti, a 
> domestic clothes line, short stories, sounds from Delhi’s streetscape, 
> paper airplanes and childhood dreams, a typography of accidental signs 
> made from egg cartons, an exploration of the systematization of 
> behavior, videos of wandering lamps, of water colour portraits coming 
> to life, of thirst and labour, factories and making, of borders and 
> transgression, of the politics of female toilet signs, cleanliness and 
> communication, images of war danced, and of breath, life, and the 
> creative process. Public interventions will enter the gallery and as 
> works emerge from the site directly; the gallery space itself will 
> become a site of intervention.
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> The curatorial approach works to create juxtapositions of perspective 
> and ideas, to build subtle associations, and to assemble the space as 
> a larger participatory project in itself through the idea of 
> facilitating shared experience.  
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> The participating artists in the exhibition includes established and 
> emerging artists as well as practitioners who don’t usually, or have 
> never before, labeled themselves as artists at all, and will bring 
> together in the School of Arts and Aesthetics Galleries of JNU works 
> from Delhi, Bangalore, Pune, Sydney, Melbourne, Seoul, New York and 
> Guatemala City.
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> Participating artists include Ingrid Dernee, Dipa Donde, Dhruba Dutta, 
> Manola K. Gayatri, Bani Gill, Natasha Ginwala, Iram Ghufran, Rosita 
> Holmes, Alana Hunt, Ish, Thomas Jacob, Ein Lall, Sophea Lerner, Ila 
> Mehrotra, Ojasvi Mohanty, Arka Mukhopadhyay, Grace Needlman, Yoon Jung 
> Oh, Aliya Pabani, Bhagwati Prasad, Andrew Robards, Paroma Sadhana, 
> Inder Salim, Anthony Sawrey, Sylvia Schwenk, Beatriz Veliz and Anna 
> Williams.
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> This project has been initiated and curated by Alana Hunt.
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> August 5 - 20, 2009
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> The School of Arts and Aesthetics Galleries,
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> Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
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> All are invited.
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> For further information please contact  (+91) 9811 989 325
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