September 14, 6:20pm
Professor Sabeena Gadihoke will be leading an exhibition walkthrough with Annu Palakunnathu Matthew for The Answers Take Time, a retrospective of Matthew’s work accompanied by the monograph of the same title at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum. Curated by Esa Epstein, this exhibition showcases eight distinct bodies of work that span nearly three decades of Matthew’s career.
Annu Palakunnathu: The Answers Take Time
September 15 - October 27, 2024
Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum
Special Project Space
Veer Mata Jijabai Bhosale Udyan (Rani Baug)
91/A, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Road
Byculla East, Mumbai 400027
November 2024
Esa Epstein, Director of sepiaEYE, is a contributor to the forthcoming book Nusra Latif Qureshi: Birds in Far Pavilions, which accompanies Art Gallery of New South Wales’ exhibition tracing Qureshi's 30-year career. The publication, featuring insights from both local and international contributors, provides a comprehensive exploration of Qureshi’s process, inspirations, and significance in contemporary Australian art.
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Nusra Latif Qureshi: Birds in Far Pavilions
Art Gallery of New South Wales
September 2024
Pamela Singh’s Chipko series will be included in Tree: Exploring the Arboreal World, Phaidon’s upcoming publication survey celebrating the beauty and diversity of trees. Spanning continents and cultures, Tree reflects the diversity of its subject in a wide-ranging selection of visuals dating from Ancient Greece to the present day.
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Tree: Exploring the Arboreal World
Phaidon Editors, with an introduction by Tony Kirkham
2024
Dr. Paul Sternberger and Esa Epstein have recently indexed and arranged 3,000 work prints by Bhupendra Karia that were made in Bombay between 1968 and 1970. Focusing on the craft movement, architecture, portraiture, and city scenes of India, the prints, organized by negative number, provide us with a day-by-day visual chronicle of Karia’s travels.
2024
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew was awarded a 2024 Beatrice S. Demers Fellowship to study Italian in the summer of 2024 and received funding to continue her research and meet the descendants of the Italian families who sheltered escaped Indian prisoners from the Italian Campaign of World War II. She will be giving a talk at the Festival delle Culture Popolari in Collelonga, a town that hid some of these soldiers.
June 15 - August 17, 2024
Charan’s Singh’s new work, The Promise of Beauty, will be exhibited in his first major solo exhibition at The Art House. Developed during his 2023 residency, the series disrupts Euro-American versions of queerness by re-examining and re-creating minor figures from Company Paintings — hybrid paintings made in India, by Indian artists, many of whom worked for European patrons.
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The Art House
Drury Ln
Wakefield WF1 2TE
United Kingdom
June 14, 2024 – March 17, 2025
Pamela Singh’s work is included in Take a Breath at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition explores the historical, social, political, and personal relationships to breath in the context of decolonisation, environmental racism, indigenous language, war, and meditation.
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The Irish Museum of Modern Art
Royal Hospital Kilmainham
Dublin 8, D08 FW3
Ireland
June 01, 2024
The World that Belongs to Us exhibition at The New Art Gallery concludes with the event Dream Baby Dream: Queer Worldmaking. The closing program unravels the queer themes within the project through talks, poetry, and performances by cultural practitioners from across the UK. As part of the event, Charan Singh and Sunil Gupta will host a two-hour closed workshop focused on the idea of queer and diasporic dreaming and network making within the narratives of care, survival and struggle with power for justice and dignity.
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The New Art Gallery
Walsall Gallery Square
Walsall WS2 8LG
UK
April 13 - September 01, 2024
Pamela Singh’s Chipko series is included in the Rebel Garden show at the Musea Brugge as part of the Triennial Bruges 2024. The exhibition breaks out of conventional museum walls and uses the garden as a starting point to explore the tumultuous relationship between man and nature in the context of the climate crisis.
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Musea Brugge
Dijver 12
8000 Brugge
Belgium
April 13, 2024 - February 28, 2025
Pamela Singh’s Chipko series is included in the Waral Prakalp exhibition at Spore Initiative. The exhibition, developed in collaboration with the eponymous indigenous Warli artist community from Ganjad, Maharashtra, centres on practices of forest protection, reforestation, and agroforestry.
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Spore Initiative
Hermannstraße 86
12051 Berlin
Germany
March 29 - August 14, 2024
Pamela Singh’s Chipko series is on view at Fotomuseum Antwerp’s RE/SISTERS: A Lens on Gender and Ecology. Realized in collaboration with the Barbican Centre, the exhibition surveys the systemic links between the degradation of the planet and the oppression of women and minorities through the work of fifty international women and gender non-conforming artists.
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Fotomuseum Antwerp
Waalsekaai 47
2000 Antwerpen
Belgium
March 23 - May 26, 2024
Qiana Mestrich’s @WorkingWOC: Towards a History of Women of Color in the Workplace project is included in Counter Histories at the Center for Photography at Woodstock. Drawn from a 2023 presentation organized by Magnum Foundation in New York City, the exhibiting artists confront difficult histories by reconstructing perspectives that have been omitted from previously accepted or official accounts.
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Center for Photography at Woodstock
474 Broadway
Kingston, NY 12401
United States