17 - 25 March, 2017
Meanings of Failed Action: Insurrection 1946 is a monumental installation intended as a work of public art to explore, dissect, and examine the “failure” of the Royal Indian Navy’s six-day insurrection against the colonial government. Within Sundaram’s ship-like steel and aluminum object is a performance space that plays a sound work by British artist David Chapman. Visitors can read newspaper reports, telegrams from the Empire, and books on the Insurrection from various view points and distances— compiled and conceptualized by Ashish Rajadhyaksha with Valentina Vitalli. This is a continuation of Sundaram’s “history projects” in which he uses historical events (“unresolved histories”) to explore their impact and the alternate futures they could have created.
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Vivan Sundaram and Ashish Rajadhyaksha: Meanings of Failed Action: Insurrection 1946
Coomarswamy Hall
Mumbai, India
Read more13 March – 2 April, 2017
Bhalla’s photographic installation is featured in Kailash Cartographies, at The New School’s Aronson Gallery. An exhibition of artists from India, China, Nepal, and the US, Kailash Cartographiesexplores conceptions of sacred geographies: holy spaces, pilgrimages, and intersections with secular, personal, and political spaces and borders.
“Atul Bhalla’s photographic installation, titled Contemplating Drowning also considers the tragic pollution of the Bagmati river, but through the figure of Shiva, who is thought to create and destroy the universe in the blink of the eye. Bhalla juxtaposes the brass monkeys from the Golden Temple in Kathmandu with images of oil lamps, that appear like spirits which may be snuffed out by the river, photographed here at dusk.”
Kailash Cartographies LINK
Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries
66 Fifth Ave. New York, NY 10003
Read moreFebruary 2017
The esteemed photography festival, FOTOFEST, has announced that the lead curator for its 2018 Biennial will be SepiaEYE artist Sunil Gupta. Gupta is an excellent choice given the Biennial’s theme: INDIAContemporary Photography and New Media Art.
As a large, multilingual subcontinent, India has always relied on images to maintain a cohesive whole across myriad subcultures, regions, castes and languages. The introduction of photomechanical imaging in the nineteenth century enabled the rapid reproduction and dissemination of both spiritual and scientific ideals. Photography for most of its history was too expensive and technical and was left in the hands of ‘experts’ — until the birth of digital technologies and the arrival of the mobile phone, which has given more than 800 million people in India the power to make their own photographs and moving images. This exhibition will address the legacy of the last twenty years, a period when photography and moving image media have been consistently included within critical exhibitions of fine art. –Sunil Gupta
We can’t wait to see what he and co-curator Steven Evans select.
10 March – 22 April 2018
FOTOFEST 2018 BIENNIAL LINK
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Houston, Texas USA
Read moreOn view through February 2018
Tate Britain has rehung their contemporary section, Sixty Years of their “Walk through British Art,” and two works by Sunil Gupta are now on view. Untitled from the series, Reflections of the Black Experience, 1986 and Ian and Julian, from the series Ten Years On, 1986.
On view through February 2018
Sixty Years LINK
Tate Britain, London
Read more23 January 2017
Vivan Sundaram’s photo installation, Terraoptics reviewed in the January 23rd issues of The Hindu and The New Indian Express. Terraoptics (14 Dec 2016 – 10 Feb 2017) will be on view at Gallery Sutra, Fort Kochi.
Look for Terraoptics at sepiaEYE opening May 9th, 2017.
23 January 2017
“Pot-shards speak history” LINK
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“Capturing Earth’s Incandescence” LINK
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Read more27 June – 6 August 2017
sepiaEYE artists Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Atul Bhalla, and Nandita Raman are amongst a dozen artists in a wonderful multi-disciplinary show curated by Gayatri Sinha. Part Narratives will be on view through January 21, 2017 at Bikaner House, New Delhi.
7 – 21 January 2017
Part Narratives
Curated by Gayatri Sinha
Bikaner House, New Delhi
Read moreThrough January 20, 2017
Atul Bhalla’s photography, amongst that of others, is included in Ho~ArT, at State Gallery of Art as part of the Krishnakriti Annual Festival of Art & Culture.
Through January 20, 2017
Ho~ArT
State Gallery of Art, Hyderabad
Review: The New Indian Express “Contemporary Canvases Come Alive” 12 Jan 2017 LINK
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About the Festival: LINK
Read more1 January 2017
Sunil Gupta was interviewed for Dreck Magazine (published January 1, 2017). He talks about his beginnings in photography as well as the current LGBTQ situation in India. The article features a selection of images from his entire and prolific career.
1 January 2017
Dreck Magazine LINK
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Read moreJanuary 2017
sepiaEYE was featured as one of the galleries that Skinner Auctions Photography Specialist, Michelle Lamunière states that she “makes sure to visit when she goes gallery hopping” in her article for the January 2017 edition of Journal of the Print World.
January 2017
“Looking for Contemporary Photography? Don’t Miss These Venues in New York!” by Michelle Lamunière LINK
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Read moreMay 28th - 29th, 2016
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew is one of the 40+ artists and scholars participating in CrossLines: A Culture Lab on Intersectionalitycreated by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center.
During Memorial Day weekend, CrossLines will be a creative convening of art installations, performances and dialogues that explore the theme of intersectionality: identities as those formed through artistic, cultural and historic encounters across race, class, gender, sexuality and more.
May 28th-29th, 2016
CrossLines: A Culture Lab on Intersectionality
Smithsonian Arts & Industries Building
900 Jefferson Dr. SW, Washington, D.C.
Read moreMay 2016
Images by Annu Palakunnathu Matthew and Osamu James Nakagawa have been selected to be a part of Seattle’s 2016 City Panorama. These works will be installed in King County Metro shelters for up to 10 years.
CITY PANORAMA 2016
Various Locations, Seattle
This public art project is now in its sixth year, and has successfully continued to bring beauty and art to public spaces via this partnership with King County Metro and the Photographic Center Northwest (PCNW).
Read moreApril 16 – September 11, 2016
From the Smallest Leaf features Koichiro Kurita’s Maine photographs taken in his inimitable style. The selection on view of these timeless hand-made prints encompass Kurita’s philosophic view of nature, “Chi Sui Ki” (terrasphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere), and how the borders of these realms share with one another and ourselves.
Koichiro Kurita: From the Smallest Leaf
Farnsworth Art Museum
Read moreMarch 31 – April 14, 2016
Atul Bhalla’s audio visual work, Adrift (On Dvaipayana) will be on view at the Harvard Art Museums from March 31 through Thursday, April 14.
Read moreDecember 6, 2015 - April 3, 2016
Picture This at the Philadelphia Museum of Art featured the work of four contemporary photographers: Gauri Gill, Sunil Gupta, Max Pinckers, and Pamela Singh. “Diverse in nationality and place of residence, each of these artists brings a cosmopolitan perspective to his or her work. Whether photographing in rural Rajasthan or major cities like Mumbai or New York, they offer points of view that do not fit easily into categories of ‘insider’ or ‘outsider.’ ”
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Philadelphia Museum of Art
Read moreNovember 9 – 14, 2015
Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh are exhibiting together at London’s 8th GFEST Gaywise Festival from November 9th-14th. The exhibition, ASIAN FUTURE, hosted at Menier Gallery, explores gender, sexuality, and religion from the lens of Asian photographers. More info here (Link).
Asian Future
Menier Gallery
London
Read moreOctober 27, 2015
sepiaEYE Artist Nandita Raman— and Curator of our exhibition, “I need my memories. They are my documents.”— has conducted a series of interviews with the artists in the show for the International Center of Photography website. Check out her interviews with Pradeep Dalal, Osamu James Nakagawa, Neal Oshima, and Shambhavi Kaul.
Pradeep Dalal Interview (Link)
Osamu James Nakagawa Interview (Link)
Neal Oshima Interview (Link)
Shambhavi Kaul Interview (Link)
Read moreOctober 27 – December 15, 2015
The Delhi Photo Festival 2015 (October 30 – November 8) will feature the exhibition Transitions and Trajectories: Photographs by Bhupendra Karia in conjunction with Apparoa Galleries at The Lodhi, Lodhi Road, New Delhi. The exhibition which has been mounted in Mumbai and Jodhpur will now be on display at the Lodhi until 15 December 2015.
Transitions and Trajectories: Photographs by Bhupendra Karia
Apparoa Galleries – The Lodhi
Lodhi Road, New Delhi
Read moreOctober 14, 2015
The work of Vivan Sundaram was recently highlighted by Peggy Roalf for DART- Design Art Daily, a publication of AI-AP (American Illustration, American Photography). His vintage work from sepiaEYE’s exhibition “I need my memories. They are my documents.” is featured. Read the article here (Link)
Read moreOctober 3, 2015
On October 3rd, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew projected photo-animations of The Virtual Immigrant in the Chen Crystal Court at the Royal Ontario Museum as part of the 10th Annual Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Toronto 2015. Nuit Blanche is a sunset-to-sunrise-all-night contemporary art event. Over 11,000 people viewed the projections.
Read moreSeptember 28, 2015
sepiaEYE photographer Raghubir Singh is mentioned by Amin Jaffer, Director of Asian Art as Christie’s, as one of the artists to “be watched out for” in regards to the growing market for Indian artwork, namely photography. Read the article here. (Link)
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