Chemould Prescott Road
Mumbai
Holding Space (for the Global South) In the oft disputed battleground of global history writing and history making, showcasing one’s own history is not an easy task, nor is it a unilateral one. This curated presentation of drawings, sculpture, textile and mixed media installations by Chemould Prescott Road balances this very delicate tension of multiple vantage points of identity, memory and territory whilst steadfastly holding crucial space for the South in global narrative building. Desmond Lazaro’s gold and pigment laden Dymaxion Map III creates a non-hierarchical comprehension of the world, absent of embedded cultural identifiers of up-down, North-South. This cartographic revisitation is complemented through Shilpa Gupta’s 100 Hand Drawn Maps of my Country documenting the differences in people’s idea of territorial belonging versus the reality experienced by them in Ecuador, India, South Korea, Israel/Palestine. The above multiplicity of mark making through carbon on paper find their static copper sculptural companion in Gupta’s MapTracing#1-IN. This is nuanced further by Reena Kallat’s River Drawings displaying the aching futility of physical barbed-wire boundaries attempting to create ownership of natural entities like water Mithu Sen’s Nothing Lost In Translation insists on widening this story telling of public consciousness by creating ambiguous forms on Japanese kozo paper, not restricted by immediate locality, or gender, race, caste, class. This continuing paradox of certain realities being cultural equalizers, such as endless, yet finite, consciousness experienced while sleeping, is captured through Jitish Kallat’s The Infinite Episode. The restful slumber of it’s scaled down sculptural animal forms is in contrast to the dense pigment dyed animals and birds in Noah’s Ark clamouring at the bottom of this descending scroll-tent in Lavanya Mani’s The Ark Animals of the World Complain to the Raven (after Mishkin). They are sparing no one the urgency of this approaching ecological distress. In an increasingly divisive world, these ideas of identity, memory and territory presented by these artworks create a much-required space for contemplation, collaboration, and conversation. Shaleen Wadhwana, 2021
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A Gentil Carioca
Addis Fine Art
Afriart Gallery
Alexander Gray Associates
blank projects
Blum & Poe
Chemould Prescott Road
Dastan’s Basement
El Apartamento
Experimenter
First Floor Gallery
Galería Agustina Ferreyra
Galeria Jaqueline Martins
Galeria Luisa Strina
Galerie Lelong & Co.
Galleria Continua
Goodman Gallery
Jenkins Johnson Gallery
kurimanzutto
Marfa’ Projects
MUJIN-TO Production
OH Gallery
OMR
PROYECTOS MONCLOVA
Proyectos Ultravioleta
Ruth Benzacar Galería de Arte
Silverlens Galleries
Southern Stars Projects
Stephen Friedman Gallery
STPI
Taka Ishii Gallery
Take Ninagawa
TKG+
SOLO
ANNA SCHWARTZ GALLERY
COMMONWEALTH AND COUNCIL
DVIR GALLERY
EMPTY GALLERY
FORTES D’ALOIA & GABRIEL
GALERÍA ELBA BENÍTEZ
GYPSUM
HANART TZ GALLERY
HOUSING GALLERY
INKstudio
INSTITUTO DE VISIÓN
ISLA FLOTANTE
JAHMEK CONTEMPORARY ART
JHAVERI CONTEMPORARY
kó – Peju Alatise
MONIQUE MELOCHE GALLERY
RELE GALLERY
ROH PROJECTS
SÉ GALERIA
SICARDI | AYERS | BACINO
SMO CONTEMPORARY ART
SULLIVAN+STRUMPF
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