Sheher, Prakriti, Devi marks artist and photographer Gauri Gill’s first extensive curation in an art context. Ruminating on the interwoven relationship between dynamic cities, the natural environment and the inseparable sacred, the show presents twelve artists and collectives working across diverse contexts of urban, rural, domestic, communitarian, public and non-material spaces.
Sheher, Prakriti, Devi comes from the Hindustani terms for ‘city’, ‘nature’ and ‘deity’. The exhibition germinates from Gill’s ongoing documentation of urban and semi-urban spaces in India since 2003 in a series titled ‘Rememory’ (after Toni Morrison). Gill offers a unique lens to regard cities as spaces of habitation that are shaped by multiple life-worlds. Together with various practitioners with whom she shares an affinity, the exhibition presents a world where built and natural structures are rendered porous by termites; gates open to unfinished roads; historical ruins become homes to migratory birds while pigeons become occupants of post-colonial houses; locusts bear witness to contemporary terrors and forests manifest as spirit sisters. In this show, viewers are invited to regard ecology as an overlap of cultural, natural and spiritual domains.
In Gill’s words, “Apart from the sheer beauty and multiple truths expressed by the different artists – from the mundane to the transcendental, the gross to the subtle, and, the man-made to the sacred – through this palimpsestic and idiosyncratic exhibition, I wish to acknowledge those who have found ways to stubbornly persist in their practice, often sharing their work only within their families and local communities, completely outside the circuits and networks of professional artists, contemporary art discourse, galleries and markets… Through this gathering of insistent voices we hope to consider the dualistic worlds of the depleted and regenerative, manmade and natural, colonial and Indigenous, young and old, English and non-English, mundane and magical, absent and present.”
Sheher, Prakriti, Devi includes works by Chamba Rumal, Chiara Camoni, Gauri Gill, Ladhki Devi, Mariam Suhail, Meera Mukherjee, Mrinalini Mukherjee, Rashmi Kaleka, Shefalee Jain, Sukanya Ghosh, Vinnie Gill and Yoshiko Crow.
Curated by Gauri Gill, in dialogue with Sabih Ahmed.
Transportraits: Women and Mobility in the City (2010)
An exhibition by Jagori, curated by Gauri Gill, to coincide with the Delhi Declaration on Women's Safety.
Alliance Francaise Gallery, November 22nd – 24th 2010
Including the artists Amruta Patil, Priya Sen, Ruhani Kaur and Uzma
Mohsin; and the collectives Blank Noise and Lucida, in collaboration
with the young people of Madanpur Khadar. The show includes a wide
selection of entries from the public - photographs as well as
testimonies and drawings, contributed by professionals as well as lay
people. The exhibit will travel to schools and colleges across the
country later.
The artist traveled across India to photograph twenty five of the activists profiled in the book, and later helped Sangat put together a traveling exhibit that was on view in New Delhi and traveled to various other cities within India, including Kashmir and the North East.
Millions of women are engaged daily in working towards a better
future. Without regard for their own safety, they are active on behalf
of the community's well-being. They call for reconciliation, demand
justice, and rebuild what has been destroyed. They work on the front in
crisis and war regions, as well as in the background all over the world.
The project and book 1000 Peace Women Across the Globe have tried to
draw the world’s attention to these women and their thus far nearly
invisible, but highly important work, and to have them nominated for the
Nobel Peace Prize 2005. The book introduces the 1000 women who were
carefully chosen to represent the millions doing similar work around the
world. Each one is presented on a double page, with a short biography
and most of the women with a portrait photograph. Both, images and
texts, were compiled by local journalists and authors, as well as by
academics and members of organizations.
1000 Peace Women Across the Globe is the ultimate manifesto of the
Peace Women and will become a reference guide for NGOs, governments,
peace and women’s networks and relief organizations as well as a general
audience interested in grassroots movements working towards the growth
of democratic civil society.
Published by Scalo Publishers; illustrated edition edition (March 30,
2006). Hardcover: 1073 pages. Language: English. 7.8 x 5.2 x 2.4
inches.
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