"Moment as Monument" Exhibition
Thomas Erben Gallery
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Thomas Erben Gallery and Aparajita Jain of Seven Art present Moment as Monument, a curated exhibition of work in a variety of media by thirteen artists from Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Iran, Pakistan and the United States, many of whom are part of the South Asian diasporas.
Moment as Monument explores the dynamic relationships between the temporal and the authoritative, in the overlap where politics, social systems and cognitive structures intersect. Through varied strategies, processes and materials, the artists in the exhibition all seek to question, challenge, expose or destabilize the often unacknowledged ideological, social, psychological, aesthetic and philosophical constructs that surround us daily.
The concept of "moment" implies sequentiality, a before and after. The criterion of isolating one moment from another is marked by intensity - of a political nature, for example, in Rit Premnath's (b. 1979, Bangalore) Surrender, a photograph of Somali pirates buzzed by a U.S. Navy helicopter. Cropped and reframed as a triptych, the singularity of the scene assumes the quality of a cinematic event. In his interactive video-installation, Kiran Subbaiah (b. 1971, Sidapur, India) heightens our awareness of the moment by duplication and temporal displacement whereas Barbad Golshiri's (b. 1982, Tehran) Jxalq [(d_ælgh) v.t. & i. act of creating a masturpiece], in part, is a meditation on the mutability inherent in the cyclical, or "looped" in video parlance.
[Image: Srestha Rit Premnath "Surrender" (2009) Digital C-print, 45 x 90 in., edition of 5]
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Schedule
from August 18, 2009 to August 25, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-08-17 from 18:00 to 21:00