"Saba Hasan Reads Her Poems" a solo art show of Video & Text Installation at Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, Copernicus Marg, Mandi House > 11am to 7pm on 13th to 19th December 2014
Time : 11:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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"Saba Hasan Reads Her Poems" a solo art show of Video & Text Installation
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Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, Copernicus Marg, Mandi House, New Delhi-110001
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Venue : Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, Copernicus Marg, Mandi House, New Delhi-110001
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Event Description : "Saba Hasan Reads Her Poems" a solo art show of Video and Text Installation.
About Saba Hasan :
Saba Hasan is a highly reputed New Delhi artist with a body of work consisting of paintings, book sculptures, photographs, videos and sound presented since 1996. She has been awarded international fellowships from Syracuse University, New York, The French Cultural Ministry, Paris, the George Keyt Art Foundation, Colombo 2002, the Oscar Kokoschka Academy in Austria, 2010 and the Raza National Award for Painting in 2005.
The versatile artist also exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2013 as part of the Imago Mundi Foundation Collection of mixed media paintings, among other major international shows in Florence, Paris, Salzburg, Milan, Singapore, Colombo, New York and Lisbon.Her video Haqeeqat/Truth was recently nominated for the Celeste Art Prize 2014and her Walking in Deer Park photographs won Honorable mention at the Moscow Foto Awards 2014.
About "Saba Hasan Reads Her Poems"
The video ‘Saba Hasan Reads Her Poems’ was shown in Barcelona as part of a performance festival last month and comprises 3 of her verses, Rehearsal for a Poem written in Salzburg, The Two of Us as a protest against the criminalization of homosexuality in India and Rain on the experience of letting go of consciousness.
The poems were written in the last four years and concern themselves with racial profiling, caste and gender oppression, love, conflict as in war/violence and hope. Saba uses several Urdu expressions in these English verses, which form old literary conventions and to her familiar intimate sounds and meanings. One such is the use of her own name as the poets have always done in ghazals.
“I write my voice works in English as that is my best language today but this is translocated from Urdu carrying with it the desire to belong to many worlds. My language is a paradox of connections between places I have lived in like Russia, India, Switzerland, France, USA. From Tagore as much as from Pushkin, Hafiz to Lorca, I have now learnt to speak in a voice invoking many myths".
The second work is a text installation, which brings into focus women’s rights through Mahashweta Devi’s text in Urdu, translated and scripted by Tahera Hasan, Saba’s mother. It addresses her personal politics and refers to the inner compulsion and responsibility of each of us to question oppressive social norms and move ahead towards change and, walking a new road.
This show is a milestone in Saba’s practice as it shows her deft and sensitive handling of all her new media materials like video and text installation bringing a deeper understanding in combination with her consistent use of text and sound in two languages, Urdu and English. Urdu, her mother tongue, which having left India with her journalist parents when she was 6 years old, which she doesn’t read or write has always been a part of her artwork. She feels it is still her mother tongue and she places it in the context of a cultural symbol of a modern discourse in a syncretic India. That is why in her installation here she has used the text from the great literary and revolutionary icon, Mahashweta Devi in Saba’s mother’s translated hand -writing. Together they speak of change and a new world.
Related Links : Exhibitions | Poetry
Entry : Free
Venue : Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, Copernicus Marg, Mandi House, New Delhi-110001
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Mandi House (Blue Line and Violet Line) Gate No. - 4'
Area : Mandi House Area Events
Event Description : "Saba Hasan Reads Her Poems" a solo art show of Video and Text Installation.
About Saba Hasan :
Saba Hasan is a highly reputed New Delhi artist with a body of work consisting of paintings, book sculptures, photographs, videos and sound presented since 1996. She has been awarded international fellowships from Syracuse University, New York, The French Cultural Ministry, Paris, the George Keyt Art Foundation, Colombo 2002, the Oscar Kokoschka Academy in Austria, 2010 and the Raza National Award for Painting in 2005.
The versatile artist also exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2013 as part of the Imago Mundi Foundation Collection of mixed media paintings, among other major international shows in Florence, Paris, Salzburg, Milan, Singapore, Colombo, New York and Lisbon.Her video Haqeeqat/Truth was recently nominated for the Celeste Art Prize 2014and her Walking in Deer Park photographs won Honorable mention at the Moscow Foto Awards 2014.
About "Saba Hasan Reads Her Poems"
The video ‘Saba Hasan Reads Her Poems’ was shown in Barcelona as part of a performance festival last month and comprises 3 of her verses, Rehearsal for a Poem written in Salzburg, The Two of Us as a protest against the criminalization of homosexuality in India and Rain on the experience of letting go of consciousness.
The poems were written in the last four years and concern themselves with racial profiling, caste and gender oppression, love, conflict as in war/violence and hope. Saba uses several Urdu expressions in these English verses, which form old literary conventions and to her familiar intimate sounds and meanings. One such is the use of her own name as the poets have always done in ghazals.
“I write my voice works in English as that is my best language today but this is translocated from Urdu carrying with it the desire to belong to many worlds. My language is a paradox of connections between places I have lived in like Russia, India, Switzerland, France, USA. From Tagore as much as from Pushkin, Hafiz to Lorca, I have now learnt to speak in a voice invoking many myths".
The second work is a text installation, which brings into focus women’s rights through Mahashweta Devi’s text in Urdu, translated and scripted by Tahera Hasan, Saba’s mother. It addresses her personal politics and refers to the inner compulsion and responsibility of each of us to question oppressive social norms and move ahead towards change and, walking a new road.
This show is a milestone in Saba’s practice as it shows her deft and sensitive handling of all her new media materials like video and text installation bringing a deeper understanding in combination with her consistent use of text and sound in two languages, Urdu and English. Urdu, her mother tongue, which having left India with her journalist parents when she was 6 years old, which she doesn’t read or write has always been a part of her artwork. She feels it is still her mother tongue and she places it in the context of a cultural symbol of a modern discourse in a syncretic India. That is why in her installation here she has used the text from the great literary and revolutionary icon, Mahashweta Devi in Saba’s mother’s translated hand -writing. Together they speak of change and a new world.
Related Links : Exhibitions | Poetry
"Saba Hasan Reads Her Poems" a solo art show of Video & Text Installation at Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, Copernicus Marg, Mandi House > 11am to 7pm on 13th to 19th December 2014
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