EXHIBITION "Performative formations" by Malathi Selvam, Kristina Matousch & Anna Laine at Open Palm Court Gallery, IHC - 2nd to 7th March 09

• Time : 10:00 am - 8:00 pm

• Event Details : ‘Performative formations’ A performance/exhibition project by Malathi Selvam, Kristina Matousch and Anna Laine.
• This exhibition/performance invites its beholders to take part in a third space where patterns, as ideas and materializations, are investigated from diverse cultural backgrounds. It is composed by three female artists, Malathi Selvam, Kristina Matousch and Anna Laine, who have approached patterns as a subject from various perspectives. Malathi Selvam is a self-taught artist who bases her works on the kolam, an artistic practice often referred to as a form of indigenous craft. She has developed the practice in a personal manner, incorporating elements from photography as well as popular religious art, in turn influenced by the colonial art schools. Kristina Matousch is trained and well acknowledged within the Western institutionalized art scene, but unfamiliar with the Indian audience. Her works, engaged in the ordering aspects of patterns, everyday life, and the relation between inside and outside, have connections with the daily kolam practice and often take forms as performances. Anna Laine is a doctoral student in anthropology with a background as an artist, and as such working in the overlap between academia and practice. Her research concerns the kolam, and she relates the Indian practice and its patterns to rhythms, as well as parallel Western constructions of femininity. The former artist is from Tamilnadu, while the two latter are from Sweden. Apart from their common interest in patterns, they engage in an aesthetic that is relational and thus concerns an interaction between audience, artists and art works.
• The working process of ‘Performative formations’ has allowed for both playfulness and conundrums. The artists have engaged in learning and appropriating from each other, and each other’s environments, constantly exploring culturally constructed, but often naturalized, categories. Tthe audience is invited to continue this process, and reflect on issues that concern the particular and the universal in our ways of being. The aim is to present a contact zone where both deconstruction and reconstruction is possible.

• Place : Open Palm Court Gallery, India Habitat Centre ( IHC ), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
• Parking : Gate No. 1 to 3 ( Cars ), Gate No. 2 ( Bikes & Bicycles )
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