EXHIBITION "Coriolis Effect: Migration and Memory" a group art show at KHOJ Studios, S-17, Khirkee Extension > 11am-7pm on 29th September to 4th October 2016

Time : 11:00 am - 7:00 pm Add to Calendar 29/09/2016 11:00 04/10/2016 19:00 Asia/Kolkata EXHIBITION "Coriolis Effect: Migration and Memory" a group art show Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/09/exhibition-coriolis-effect-migration.html KHOJ Studios, S-17, Khirkee Extension, New Delhi - 110017 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free

Venue : KHOJ Studios, S-17, Khirkee Extension, New Delhi - 110017
Venue Info : khojworkshop.org | Nearest Metro Station - 'Malviya Nagar (Yellow Line) Exit Gate - 3'
Area : Saket

Event Description : EXHIBITION : Khoj International Artists Association presents "Coriolis Effect: Migration and Memory" a group art show. 

The exhibition is the culmination of a month-long residency at Khoj Studios that includes Indian and African artists and one which seeks to activate the social, economic and cultural relationship which exists between India and Africa. Participating artists are Mahesh Shantaram, Andrew Ananda Voogel, Chibuike Uzoma, João Orecchia, Liza Grobler, Malini Kochupillai and Swati Janu. The critic-in-residence is Persis Taraporevala.

Says Sitara Chowfla, curator, Khoj Studios: “Khoj’s neighborhood of Khirkee Village is a dense urban-village environment that is home to a stream of immigrants from within India and across the global South. Arrival is often accompanied by tension and experiences of discrimination based on race and social difference. In this past year at Khoj, we have been deeply contemplating Migration – the voluntary or involuntarily movement of peoples from one place to another. Globally, we have borne witness to the forced displacement of thousands of people from their homelands, and locally we have first hand experienced the trauma of re-location. We are also extremely interested in the formation of memory due to this migration – both individual and collective. We have invited artists to look back at the past and comprehend the present. What happens to your identity when you lose your place of belonging? What are memories of home and place that you carry with you?”

Mahesh Shantaram, 39, is an independent documentary photographer who is showing a collection of ten photographs titledLooking at You Looking at Me: The African Portraits. For his project at Khoj, he has taken photographs of the African community residing in Rajpur Khurd Extension & New Ashok Nagar in Delhi and Jalandhar. Indo-Caribbean artist Andrew Ananda Voogel, 33, centers his work around the indentured labour trade from India to the Caribbean.  Memories of their violent departure and exile form an important part of Voogel's work. 24-year-old Nigerian artist Chibuike Uzoma tries to look beyond a literal interpretation of the subject. In 2014, he left Africa for the first time to take up a residency opportunity in Vienna, Austria.Uzoma’s project at Khoj includes 22 mixed media drawings titled Rose Garden which are created like fragile pieces of “hope for a better future”. He is also exhibiting six photographs taken on the streets of Old Delhi that showcase him walking around like a tourist. Issues of migration, cultural memory and national identity resonate deeply with João Orecchia on many levels and run deep through his ancestry, with his mother and father who immigrated to New York from Lima, Peru and Rome, Italy respectively. Liza Grobler lives in Cape Town, South Africa and her project at Khoj titled Greener Pastures has various dimensions that seek to show connections between places and people and the migration of ideas. Delhi-based photographer Malini Kochupillai has created a 12-page mock-newspaper in Hindi and English titled Khirkee Voice/Khirkee ki Awaaz to help sensitize people to mutual co-existence. Delhi-based architect Swati Janu's project aims to probe deeper into the digital patterns of the diverse migrant communities at Khirkee through the form of a local phone recharge store.

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