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2020

Art show presented by Art Alive Gallery - YOU WILL KNOW ME: Migration Stories Curated by Tara Sabharwal
Preview: Sunday, 19th January 2020, 12 Noon

Show Dates:
20th January 2020 - 10th February 2020, 11am - 7pm and
30th January - 2nd February 2020, 11am - 8pm

At: Art Alive Gallery
S-221, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi 110017

Ayisha Abraham I Golnar Adili I Tomie Arai I Chakaia Booker I Barbara Beisinghoff I Janet Goldner I Cheryl Goldsleger I Leslie Jean-Bart I Tatana Kellner I Mohammad Omer Khalil I Karen Kunc I Sarojini Lewis I Berette Macaulay I Lavanya Mani I Larry Millard I Veer Munshi I Shervone Neckles I Judith Blum Reddy I Roger Rigorth I Miguel Angel Rivera I Tara Sabharwal I Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam I Sabine Stange I Mary Ting I Benjamin Zawalich

Curator's Note
There are over 70 million displaced people in the world today.
The causes of this crisis are many, complex and often global in nature: neo colonialism, climate change, war and poverty. However, refugees across the world today, confront a surge of xenophobia. The alien 'other' is not only demonized, but also turned into an existential threat. Indeed, in this age of global anxiety, where even citizens of developed nations suffer a lack of security in their finances and future, the mere 'otherness of the other' becomes yet another source of anxiety, much to the detriment of both populations.

At the shore, the lines are drawn. Both sides are fearful and suddenly thrown together. The refugee looks towards the shore to begin a new life. I am here now. YOU WILL KNOW ME. But what will be the form, quality and course of this encounter? It is uncertain.

The artists in this show live within communities as natural outsiders, forming their own borderless intersections. Our work addresses inbetweenness, a space between two cultures where relationships and negotiations consistently define and redefine themselves, remaining unfixed, in a state of constant transformation.

As artists, we have our own relationship with uncertainty. In facing a blank canvas we not only face uncertainty, we embrace it. By so doing, we can channel the hope and hopelessness of our time and be your mirrors. We can also take you to a hidden, deeper certainty, something that connects and brings us together.
Can our work, in these uncertain times, open a space for dialog?

About The Curator
Originally from Delhi, Sabharwal has been based in New York City for 30 years. She graduated from MS University, Baroda and received a Master's degree at the Royal College of Art, London. Over a career that spans 37 years, she has had over 40 solo shows in India, Germany, UK and USA. Sabharwal has received many awards, including The British Council and Durham Cathedral fellowships in the UK; and the Joan Mitchell and Gottlieb fellowships in the USA. Her work is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert, DLI and British Museums in the UK; and The Peabody and Essex Museum, NY Public library and The Library of Congress, in the USA.

About The Exhibition
Tara Sabharwal initiated an artist group in response to the 2016 US elections. The chosen artists shared a cultural inbetweenness and came from several countries. Every member of the group agreed to take the show to their location, invite local artist and involve community. Thereby keeping the dialoguerelevant and urgent. The group has had six shows in Germany and America so far and is booked for six more in North, Central and South America in 2020.

From Germany we havenomadic sculptor Roger Rigorth's installation of thin, fragile oars, Barbara Beisinghoff's artist books on the poetry of Jewish poet and holocaust victim Gertrude Kolmar and Sabine Stange's photographs on perceptual transience.

From America Tana Kellner's monoprints on the US Bill of Rights and immigration, Karen Goldner's film on US border crossings, Golnar Adili's paper cuts on Iranian poetry of displacement, Cheryl Goldsledger's prints of migration maps, Miguel Rivera's overlapped drawings derived from his Mexican American roots,

Leslie jean Bart's photographs of Haitian American identity discord through photos of reflections in water, Karen Kunc's woodcuts on rural urban migration, Shervone Neckle's prints on her overlapping Caribbean

American identity, Chakaia Booker's prints referencing African American displacement and transformative power of improvisation, Tomie Arai's silkscreens referencing Japanese internment camps in US during the second World war , Judy Blum Reddy's film on her parent's post holocaust migration to the US, Mary Ting's paper cut prints on the ecological effects of migration, Benzamin Zawalich's prints on his transient identity through America and Chile, Mohammad Omer Khalil's etchings on a Sudanese classic 'Season of Migration to the north', and Berette Maculay's film on identity transformations relating to her roots in Sierra Leone, UK, and Jamaica.

From India we have Ayisha Abraham's film on the life of a Nepali migrant living in Bangalore, Veer Munshi's installation on his return to his exiled home in Kashmir, Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam's film on the experience of Tibetans in exile, Lavanya Mani's dyed textiles on migrations, Sarojini Lewis'sprints on her grandfather's migration during his service in British army in World War 2 and Tara Sabharwal's, collaged silkscreened of refugees on boats encountering the 'other'.