Bharti Kher : the body is a place / edited by Gemma Brace.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kher, Bharti, 1969- artist.

Contributor:

Brace, Gemma, editor.

Arnolfini Gallery, host institution, issuing body.

Class of 1953 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kher, Bharti, 1969---Exhibitions.

Kher, Bharti.

Kher, Bharti, 1969-.

Arts, English.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

142 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Body is a place

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Arnolfini, 2022.

Summary:

A brand-new book from Arnolfini, exploring the alchemical practice of internationally renowned artist Bharti Kher, on occasion of her major solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition includes new and previously unseen works created by Kher during residencies in Somerset in 2017 and 2019, as well as her monumental bindi drawings, the playful and political drawing-based installation Links in a Chain, sculptures made from found objects and plaster casts, and a new encounter with her site-specific bindi work Virus; part of a 30-year project began by the artist in 2010. A collector of materials and meaning, Kher's work invites us into a world of objects and a world of words, weaving between magical, mythical, spiritual, and scientific realms. Drawing upon bodily senses she creates her own hand-brain-body-art-language. I hear it, taste it, eat it, write it, draw it. Explored here in both two and three-dimensional forms. Exhibition: Arnolfini, Bristol, UK (22.10.2022 - 29.01.2023).

Notes:

Published to accompany an exhibition held at Arnolfini, Bristol, 22 October 2022-29 January 2023.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1953 Fund.

ISBN:

9781399923552

1399923552

OCLC:

1421006197