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Postdate: Photography and Inherited History in India is on at SJMA

April 13, 2015
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Postdate- Photography and Inherited History in India is on at the San Jose Museum of Art

Postdate: Photography and Inherited History in India is on at the San Jose Museum of Art until August 2. I knew I had to see if for Pushpamala N and Clare Arni’s Yogini (see Stalking Yogini) but I was really taken with so much of the work!

Marie Cameron with the Native Types and Yogini and Myna - SJ MOMA - photo O. Putohit 2015

Here I am comparing the original gouache Yogini with Mynah (1603-4 ) with the photographic re-enactment on exhibit in the series, “Native Women of South India: Manners and Customs” in which many such iconic images of Indian women were staged and shot.

SJMA - Native Types - Pushmala N, and Clare Arni

Surekha - The Fragrance of Jasmine 2002 - SJMA-  photo Marie Cameron 2015

Surekha’s The Fragrance of Jasmine (2002) was a collection of 87 found photographs from the South Indian tradition of marking points of passage in a girl’s life (puberty, marriage, pregnancy) by taking photograph of the girl with a jasmine flower braid (carefully reflected in a mirror). Very moving en masse like this.

Surekha - The Fragrance of Jasmine 2002 - SJMA 2-  photo Marie Cameron 2015

Jitish Kalat - Event Horizon - Lenticular Photogrpahic Print 2014 - SJMA 2015

As you moved past Jitish Kallat’s lenticular photographic print, Event Horizon (2014) colors shifted and the image would change like catching glimpses from the window of a quickly moving rickshaw.

SJ Museum of Art - Marie Cameron with Artist Making a Local Call by Jitish Kallat

Speaking of rickshaws,  Artist Making a Local Call, again by Jitish Kallat, played with the sense of time by overlaying multiple digital exposures for the period of a typical payphone call (you can see the shadows shift). The resulting image is slightly surreal.

SJ Museum of Art patrons with Artist Making a Local Call by Jitish Kallat

Nandan Ghiya - Female Indroid Album 2012 - photographs, acrylic and frames -  SJMA                         Nandan Ghiya - Download Error-  2012 - photographs, acrylic and frames -  SJMA

Deconstructing traditional portraiture, Nandan Ghiya had painted digitally altered portraits and reframed them looking at them as a genre from the past, one that is rapidly changing.

Post Datum - Madhuban Mitra - 12 Pigment photographs - 1973 - SJMA 2015

Madhuban Mitra’s twelve pigment photographs, Post Datum, from 1973 speaks to me of the archaic and inexplicably functional nature of bureaucratic India. I remember the curious experience of placing a train reservation in the 90’s – my request was recorded in a dusty tomb that was relegated to cavernous dusty shelves with similar dusty tombs and I thought “There goes nothing!” but there was indeed a place reserved for me. This collection of photographs is a tribute to the heroic, historic organization in the midst of chaos in India as it molders away.

Gauri Gill, Urma and Nimili, Lankaranasar - SJMA 2015

I think my favorite piece is Gauri Gill’s silver gelatin photograph, Urma and Nimili, Lankaranasar from her “Notes from the Dessert” series.  I love the juxtaposition of their serious faces in this playful pose and how lovingly they support each other – topsy turvy!

 

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