Sudarshan Shetty presents an exhibition in the guise of a public “stage” for theatrical mourning. This newly conceived installation further extends the artist’s ongoing interest in transience and mortality, futility and meaninglessness. Shetty appropriates ceremonial objects and rituals from their traditional funereal social context, recreating them as contemporary props that mourn a fictional death. Here the passing away of life operates as a canny trope to explore the emptiness of production.
Artist
Sudarshan Shetty (IN)Katya García-Antón
Katya García-Antón is an independent curator working with art, design and architecture. She worked at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London; BBC World Service, London; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Museu de Arte Moderno, Sao Pãulo; IKON Birmingham, UK; and Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève (director 2002–2011). She was in the editorial committee for Third Text (2000–2002). She curated the Spanish Pavilions of the Venice Biennale 2011 and the São Paulo Biennale 2004, and co-curated Days Like These, Prague Biennale 2005. In November 2012 Katya Garcia-Anton will launch Gestures in Time (curated with Lara Khaldi), the flagship exhibition of Qalandia International, a new biennial festival for international visual arts in Palestine (directed by Jack Persekian).
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