reenakallat

Woven Chronicle, 2015

Installation view, Vancouver Art Gallery Offsite Woven Chronicle 2015 circuit boards, speakers, electrical wires and fittings 10 min Single Channel Audio The flows and movements of travellers, migrants, labour across the world have produced major social and economic implications as well as new forms of cultural exchange. It has not only allowed us to free culturalRead More »Woven Chronicle, 2015

Echoes, 2015

Installation view, G. Talwatkar Marg, Mumbai Supported by Asia Art Projects Echoes 2015 painted text on the street 264 x 168 in. I 671 x 427 cm

Saline Notations, 2015

Saline Notations 2015 digital prints on Hahnemuhle Photorag archival paper 28 x 28 in. I 71 x 71 cm. each (set of 4 prints) edition 5 + AP Reena Kallat, has been working with salt in various contexts, occasionally within her sculptural practice as metaphor for sustenance but also to write transient texts on theRead More »Saline Notations, 2015

Aperture – 2, 2014-2015

Installation view, facade of the Vancouver Art Gallery Aperture - 2 2014-2015 Single channel video projection duration 3 mins 17 secs Reena Saini Kallat’s animation Aperture 2 reads like a cinematic scene turned video game, where audiences are as likely to be captured by the slow and sentimental choreography of a flock of silhouetted birds coming to rest on theRead More »Aperture – 2, 2014-2015

Siamese Trees, 2014

Installation view, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai Siamese Trees 2014 electric wire, metal ring, motion sensor, LED assembling rope light 72 x 60 in I 183 x 152 cm In Siamese Trees, an enlarged embroidery ring, whose base fabric itself is a painstakingly woven mesh of electrical wiring, forms a fabric- fence even as these conduitsRead More »Siamese Trees, 2014

Anatomy of distance, 2014

Installation view, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai Anatomy of Distance 2014 electric wire, metal rings, motion sensor, LED buzzer alarm and indicator pilot lamp Electrical cables woven together to resemble barbed wires are a central motif in the works of Reena Kallat. The artist advances her subversive exploration of the symbolism of everyday objects in AnatomyRead More »Anatomy of distance, 2014

Half Oxygen, 2014

Installation view, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai Half Oxygen 2014 electric wire, metal ring, speaker with built-in micro-sd card sound playback 71 x 63.5 in I 180 x 161 cm Half Oxygen is among a range of works by Reena Kallat that dwells on the violent conflict between her native India and its neighbour Pakistan overRead More »Half Oxygen, 2014

Saline Notations, 2014

Saline Notations 2014 digital prints on Hahnemuhle Photorag archival paper 23 x 33 in. l 58 x 84 cm each The ongoing series of text based works in salt have an element of surrender, left to be washed by the rush of the tide, be blown away by the strength of a draft, or simplyRead More »Saline Notations, 2014

Untitled, 2014

Untitled 2014 digital prints on Hahnemulhe Photorag archival paper 12 x 18 in. l 30 x 46 cm. (each) edition 5+AP Who is to say what we must remember and how? For all the stone plaques, the iron gates, the stately monoliths and mortar minarets, Built, laboriously, to remind us of the labors of history,Read More »Untitled, 2014