Sheba Chhachhi "Winged Pilgrims: A Chronicle from Asia"
Bose Pacia
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Winged 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."
[Image: Sheba Chhachhi "Robes from Winged Pilgrims: A Chronicle from Asia" (2006-7) mixed media (silk, iron armature, wood, moving image lamps with digital image duratrans), dimensions variable]
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Schedule
from November 13, 2008 to December 20, 2008
Opening Reception on 2008-11-13 from 18:00 to 20:00