Hyphenated Lives
2015
gouache, charcoal, ink and electric wire on handmade paper,
black boards, wooden vitrines, unfired clay, postcards.
Hyphenated Lives, the suite of works from which the exhibition derives its title, envision fantastical mutations within the natural world. Reena Kallat invents new hybridized species of birds and animals, trees and flowers, which are otherwise fore-grounded as national symbols and proclaimed by nations as their own. In her works these get combined, symbolically unifying the nations they represent, as if we were taking a peek into an elapsed moment of unison in the past or from an imagined future when indeed they may re-unite.
Hyphenated lives (The Rio Grande River) – 2015
gouache, charcoal, ink and electric wire on deckle – edge handmade paper
39.5 x 26.5 in. l 100 x 63 cm.
Hyphenated lives (Crested cara-gle) – 2015
gouache, charcoal, ink and electric wire on Fabriano paper
29 x 21 in. l 74 x 53 cm.
Hyphenated lives (Ti-khor) – 2015
charcoal, ink and electric wire on Fabriano paper
22 x 27 in. l 56 x 69 cm.
Hyphenated lives (Sham-rose) – 2015
gouache, charcoal, ink and electric wire on deckle – edge handmade paper
39.5 x 26.5 in. l 100 x 63 cm.
Hyphenated lives (Rob-wing) – 2015
gouache, charcoal, ink and electric wire on handmade paper
30 x 30 in. l 76 x 76 cm.
Hyphenated lives (Ganges – Brahmaputra – Meghna) – 2015
gouache, charcoal, ink and electric wire on handmade paper
22 x 30 in. l 56 x 76 cm.
Hyphenated lives (De-on) – 2015
gouache, charcoal, ink and electric wire on handmade paper
35 x 45 in.I 89 x 114 cm.
Hyphenated lives (Eag-on) – 2015
Painted Blackboard
36 x 24 in. l 91 x 61 cm.
Hyphenated lives (Cob-ger) – 2015
gouache, charcoal, ink and electric wire on deckle – edge handmade paper
39.5 x 26.5 in. l 100 x 63 cm.
Hyphenated lives (Oak-palm) – 2015
charcoal, ink and electric wire on Fabriano paper
22 x 30 in. l 56 x 76 cm.
Hyphenated lives (The Jordan River Basin) – 2015
gouache, charcoal, ink and electric wire on deckle – edge handmade paper
39.5 x 26.5 in l 100 x 63 cm.
Hyphenated lives (Cob- ger) – 2014
charcoal, ink and electric wire on Fabriano paper
26.5 x 39.5 in. l 63 x 100 cm.
Hyphenated lives (Saker-Swallow) – 2015
gouache, charcoal, ink and electric wire on handmade paper
33 x 42 in. l 87 x 107 cm.
Hyphenated lives (Sun-poe) – 2015
Painted Blackboard
36 x 36 in. l 91 x 91 cm.
Hyphenated lives (Poppy-Lily of the Valley) – 2015
charcoal, ink and electric wire on Fabriano paper
29 x 21 in. l 74 x 53 cm.
Hyphenated lives (Mar-olf) – 2015
gouache, charcoal, ink and electric wire on handmade paper
35 x 45 in. l 89 x 114 cm.
Hyphenated lives (Crested Cara-gle) – 2015
gouache, charcoal, ink and electric wire on handmade paper
47.5 x 31.5 in. l 121 x 80 cm.
