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SUMMARY:THE ANSWERS TAKE TIME - Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum
DESCRIPTION:The Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum in collaboration with sepiaEYE with the support of The Mehrangarh Museum Trust\, Jodhpur\, are pleased to present The Answers Take Time\, a retrospective of Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s work accompanied by the monograph of the same title. Curated by Esa Epstein\, this exhibition showcases eight distinct bodies of work that span nearly three decades of Matthew’s career. The Answers Take Time (by Minor Matters/sepiaEYE\, 2022) is Matthew’s first monograph covering her mid-career survey. It elucidates a conceptual artist’s progression using photography\, collage\, animation\, and parody to explore performative and nuanced elements of cultural identities. Matthew draws on personal experiences and then collaborates to tell the stories of others. Although she began her career as an accomplished still photographer\, her artistic practice has expanded\, incorporating a unique toolbox of stills\, moving images\, and sound for an immersive experience for the viewer. These works often draw on archival photographs for their inspiration and re-examine historical narratives and the legacies of colonization. Born in England\, Matthew moved to India at age 11. Her father\, the family’s photo-documentarian\, passed away shortly after. His passing lost the so-called photographic “proof” of her childhood memories. In Fabricated Memories\, the artist composites her childhood family snapshots with images made during a visit to England 20 years after her father’s death. These seemingly realistic events did not occur but accurately depict Matthew’s memories of her father and her childhood in England. The work is presented as a handmade accordion book of digitally altered Polaroid transfers. As her father died from health issues exacerbated by smoking\, the book is bound in paper made from tobacco leaves and housed in a cigarette box stained with tobacco juice to lead the viewer into her fabricated memories further using the senses of sight\, touch\, and smell.Dr. Deepali Dewan (Senior Curator\, Royal Ontario Museum) writes\, “The family photograph is the most familiar\, ubiquitous\, and numerous of any genre of photography and yet\, despite its popularity\, remains notably absent from photo histories. In much of her work\, Matthew focuses on the family photograph\, exploring its psychological and emotional dimensions to subvert cultural expectations.” Immigrating to America at 28 to begin her photographic career\, Matthew developed a unique take on family\, memory\, and the construction of parallel realities\, identities\, and histories woven seamlessly into her imagery. The dreamlike black and white photographs from her Memories of India series\, taken with a cheap plastic “Holga” camera\, capture fleeting memories of India. The atmospheric and cloudy images speak to her visceral response to the sights\, smells\, and activities of her travels. In her essay Memory’s Kingdom\, Vicki Goldberg states\, “[Matthew’s] sense of self is ambiguously located between England\, India\, and America\, and these images hover ambiguously between dream and reality\, document and fantasy\, clarity\, and obscurity\, today and long ago. Memory and time\, those elusive qualities\, are malleable in Matthew’s hands. Here\, they merge in an evocative personal account of a country partially erased by camera light\, time\, and what it called progress.” \npage 1 of 2 \nAs an immigrant in the United States\, in An Indian from India\, a series of diptychs\, Matthew tackles the misguided question: “But where are you really from?” Stemming from the need to explain herself as “an Indian from India”\, the artist presents 19th and early 20th-century portraits of Native Americans\, photographed as exotic “others.” Matthew mimics this approach in the second image of the diptych\, recreating the scene with herself as the sitter\, an “Indian from India\,” reversing the colonial gaze so familiar in 19th-century photography of Indians by the British. This series reflects on the early work of American photographers\, including Edward Curtis\, who photographed Native Americans. Matthew modernizes the process of orotones to mimic the early portfolio format of cased images meant to be “read” like a book. Still photography\, photo animation\, video\, and sound are deftly used in Matthew’s cultural investigations. Matthew delves into the children’s memories of the 1947 Partition of India in Open Wound. Here\, she retells other people’s stories and uses family photographs and reenactments to create poignant photo animations with excerpts from their discussions. Re-Generation employs an investigative process where she focuses on women in the context of globalization across generations. In Virtual Immigrant\, Matthew tells the story of call center workers in Bangalore who alternate between their Indian selves and their roles as Westerners online. The life-size lenticular works display two versions of the same person. By moving back and forth\, the viewer sees both identities and hears the actual voices of the subjects as they recount their experiences. This audio-visual series incorporates a nontraditional process of lenticular printing\, which is more commonly used for small trinkets and gifts.This exhibition features two works exposing the forgotten past of Indian soldiers who fought for the British during World War II — The Unremembered: The Indian Soldiers from World War II and The Indian Soldiers from the Italian Campaign of World War II (commissioned by the Kochi Biennial\, 2018). By blending photographs\, video\, sound\, 3D laser-cut crystals\, and text\, Matthew creates a dynamic and immersive experience for the viewers to bring untold stories to life. Matthew’s work has garnered international acclaim\, with notable exhibitions at prestigious institutions that underscore the global significance of her artistic contributions. She has exhibited in solo shows at the The Royal Ontario Museum; The Newport Art Museum; and Nuit Blanche Toronto. Selected group exhibitions include The RISD Museum; The Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston; Museum of Fine Arts Houston; The San Jose Museum of Art; The Victoria & Albert Museum; The Smithsonian Institution; Noorderlicht Photofestival; Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal Photo Biennale; Kochi-Muziris Biennale; and Guangzhou Photo Biennial.A passionate mentor to students and emerging artists\, Matthew is a Professor of Art at the University of Rhode Island who graciously support her work. She also served as the Director of the Center for Humanities and the Silvia Chandley Professor of Nonviolence and Peace Studies. Matthew has received many grants and fellowships\, including two Fulbright Fellowships\, a MacColl Johnson Fellowship\, the John Gutmann Fellowship\, the Rhode Island State Council of the Arts Fellowship\, and the American Institute of Indian Studies Creative Arts Fellowship. She was an artist-in-residence at the Yaddo and MacDowell Colonies.
URL:https://www.annumatthew.com/event/the-answers-take-time-2/
LOCATION:Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum\, Veer Mata Jijabai Bhosale Udyan (Rani Baug)\, Mumbai\, India
CATEGORIES:An Indian from India,Generations,Memories of India,Re-Generations,Stories of Partition,The UNREMEMBERED,The Virtual Immigrant
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SUMMARY:Penumbra Foundation Fall '23 Artist Series
DESCRIPTION:  \nFollowed by a book signing.
URL:https://www.annumatthew.com/event/penumbra-foundation-fall-23-artist-series/
LOCATION:Penumbra Foundation\, 36 East 30th Street\,\, New York\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:An Indian from India,Bollywood Satirized,Generations,Memories of India,Postdate: Photography & Inherited History in India,Re-Generations,Stories of Partition,The UNREMEMBERED,To Majority Minority
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SUMMARY:The Answers Take Time
DESCRIPTION:Buy your copy today!\nmonograph published by minor matters books and sepiaEYE\, nyc\n\nISBN: 978-1-7356423-5-2 \nWith an artist interview by Tom Jones II\, and an essay by Bakirathi Mani. In collaboration with sepiaEYE \nInformed by her perspective as a global citizen who has been a resident of three continents\, the book’s sequence is its own journey through geographies and time\, influenced by the irrefutable narratives of population displacement\, and the imperfection of memories. Her photo-based installation work is a blend of still and moving imagery\, often drawing on archives of professional portraiture and of personal photographs to elucidate similarities beneath assumed surface differences.  \nMatthew investigates identities she exists within\, and outside of\, finding ways to inhabit others’ stories so that they are heard and seen. Probing the impact of America’s dual position as colony and colonizer\, her work expands what is considered to be American history in the country she now calls home.
URL:https://www.annumatthew.com/event/the-answers-take-time/
CATEGORIES:An Indian from India,Bollywood Satirized,Generations,Memories of India,Re-Generations,Stories of Partition,The UNREMEMBERED,The Virtual Immigrant,To Majority Minority
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SUMMARY:ReVision
DESCRIPTION:Curated by Dr. Francine Weiss.\nFor over twenty years\, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew has been making photo-based works of art that deal with lesser-known histories and immigration. Born in England\, raised in India\, and now living in the United States\, Matthew draws on her personal experience and identity and also collaborates to tell the stories of others from South Asia. These experiences and collaborations culminate in powerful and evocative works of art. Although she began her career as an accomplished still photographer\, Matthew’s artistic practice has expanded to include installations and sculptures\, which incorporate a unique blend of still and moving images and sound. These new works draw on archival photographs for their inspiration and re-examine historical narratives and the legacies of colonization. \nThis exhibition features early work by the artist\, such as her dreamlike black and white film photographs from the series Memories of India and her thought-provoking self-portraits based on Edward S. Curtis’s photographs of Native Americans for An Indian from India. This show also includes a selection of the artist’s compelling recent works about the traumatic aftermath of the Partition of India in 1947 and the forgotten history of Indian soldiers who fought for the British during World War II: Open Wound–Stories of Partition and The Unremembered–Indian Soldiers from the Italian Campaign of WWII. Blending photographs\, video\, sound\, sculpture\, text\, and narrative for her works\, Matthew creates a dynamic and immersive experience for viewers while she recovers many all-too neglected histories.\nCrystals\, The UNREMEMBERED Indian soldiers World War 2
URL:https://www.annumatthew.com/event/revision/
LOCATION:Newport Art Museum\, Newport\, RI\, United States
CATEGORIES:An Indian from India,Generations,Memories of India,Re-Generations,Stories of Partition,The UNREMEMBERED
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SUMMARY:‘Lokame Tharavadu'  'ലോകമേ തറവാട്’ (The World Is One Family)\,
DESCRIPTION:The Kochi Biennale Foundation and the Government of Kerala are happy to announce ‘Lokame Tharavadu’  ‘ലോകമേ തറവാട്’ (The World Is One Family)\, a large-scale curated contemporary art exhibition of Malayali artists from all around the world. Over 260 artists will be exhibiting a collection of their works to foreground each of their individual practices.\n\nThe show will open in March 2021 and run until the end of May\, spanning 6 venues in Alappuzha and Ernakulam.
URL:https://www.annumatthew.com/event/lokame-tharavadu-%e0%b4%b2%e0%b5%8b%e0%b4%95%e0%b4%ae%e0%b5%87-%e0%b4%a4%e0%b4%b1%e0%b4%b5%e0%b4%be%e0%b4%9f%e0%b5%8d-the-world-is-one-family/
CATEGORIES:Generations,Re-Generations,Spatial Memories
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