Radhika Khimji "Density and the Shifting Plane"
Bose Pacia
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Density and the Shifting Plane is, London and Muscat-based, Radhika Khimji's first solo exhibition in New York. It is also the inaugural exhibition at Bose Pacia's new location in DUMBO. And it is with this eye for new experiences and positions that we embrace Khimji's dynamic installation works. The exhibition is comprised of mixed-media, collage and painting on paper, plywood, plexiglass, and metal. Khimji's penchant for amorphous human figures and relationships transforms the gallery space into an active panorama of destabilized assemblages.
Khimji's sculptures and paintings emphasize an ongoing obsession with surface and form. The surfaces of these figures are created through an active building of marks, drawings, and found images. The temporal component of this active mark-making implicates a certain journey across the surface of the work for the artist. The result is a veritable cartography of activity – both the physical moving in space as well as the act of drawing and remembering.
The purposeful censorship of key communication apparatuses, namely arms and faces, imbue the figures with an affected muteness. While the traditional communicative devices are muted the figures speak through their unique movements, positions and relationships. The final result is one of powerful juxtapositions. These playful configurations of forms smartly shift the relationships between figure and ground.
The shifting perspective in Khimji's installations, in tandem with her combinations of palimpsestic textures and surfaces, makes space for a virtually endless set of conceptual possibilities. Vincent Honoré has attributed this openness to Khimji's "[i]nterconnections between the different movements of traveling, reading, and dancing together with an exploration of Indian, Arabic and European formal structures…" (London 2009).
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Schedule
from November 13, 2009 to January 23, 2010
Opening Reception on 2009-11-13 from 18:00 to 20:00