Exhibit 320 is happy to announce the solo project by Vibha Galhotra. The exhibits are part of her project which she continued from 2011 to 2013 .The project consist the works from the last 2 year of experience and observation around the continual deconstruction of the given environment
Vibha Galhotra's art addresses transcultural in the global local specificity. she had presented in biennales as well as national and international solo exhibitions and collaborations. galhotra's work focuses on the context of displacement, nostalgia, identity, existence construction or deconstruction, the banal cultural condition in, around environment of negotiations in the new constant changing urban atmosphere.
Her work crosses the dimensions of art, ecology, economy, science, spirituality and activism. though she claims that she is an artist but not an activist, but i feel there is an hint of activism or should say social responsibility. Galhotra's works in varied mediums through photography, animation, found object, per formative objects, installation and sculpture to create experiential spaces.
'The changing environment made me do the work 'Sediments and other untitled...'where ultimately my concerns and thoughts are about my self and other living beings. I soon feel the whole world is going to face an environmental shift without an understanding of the Borders and Orders.
My focus here pertains to the basic element of our body formation – WATER. This element, which was also the driving force of our planet’s formation, is not granted its importance in many parts of the world,especially in urban dwellings. In one of the walks around the Yamuna River – one of the holy rivers around which loads of cities developed, being one of them now known as Dilli or Delhi –, (I generally go there once in a while to see the water situation and to talk to the people living around it), Sanjay, a boat rider and dweller at Yamuna banks, takes me on a boat ride.
Every time, the river stinks more and more,like sewage, and every time I get breathless with the smell. As soon as the river enters in Delhi, most of the industrial waste converts the river in sewage – it stinks and the water becomes a kind of ‘black ink’. In other ways, this waters affect all the people living in the cities around the river: the arsenic existing in the water ultimately reaches our body system through the food grown in it. And we just respond with excuses of our own ignorance.
I feel we all have to pay the toll of this destruction. Through this work, I longed to capture the moment of depression in a very playful, satirical and curious manner.By collecting the sediments from the river, I employed them as Indian ink, charcoal or colour, thus mirroring the situation of darkness we are going trough...'
Sediment and Other Untitled .. is presented by Exhibit 320, New Delhi in collaboration with Jack Shainman Gallery,New York
