Nandita Raman Exhibitions
Nandita Raman: Do Not Forget Me
September 27-November 17, 2018
A solo exhibition which features works from series, Film Studio (2014) and Cinema Play House (2006-2009). DO NOT FORGET ME borrows its title from a short story by Alexander Kluge (Cinema Stories, 2007) about a German actor’s desire to be loved and remembered forever. The muted color works in Film Studio touch on the objects that produced lasting memories: cameras draped in faded fabrics, well-worn ladders— shrouded remnants of a once teeming industry left in the dust. Raman’s photographs of these objects, tools, and spaces that at one time rendered the imaginary visible, serve as mnemonic devices that spark anecdotes and recollections of the history of Indian cinema.
FACE OFF
January 24th - March 17th, 2018
A group show that explores confrontational and performative portraiture by seven artists working in installation, video, and photography. The exhibition features the work of Vivan Sundaram, Joaquin Trujillo, Pamela Singh, Angelika her, Nandita Raman, Soumya Sankar Bose, Serena Chopra and surprises from the private collection of Nigel Maister.
BOUNCE
October 20 – December 2, 2017
A group show that explores confrontational and performative portraiture by seven artists working in installation, video, and photography. The exhibition features the work of Vivan Sundaram, Joaquin Trujillo, Pamela Singh, Angelika Sher, Nandita Raman, Soumya Sankar Bose, Serena Chopra and surprises from the private collection of Nigel Maister.
RECTANGULAR SQUARES
September 19–November 1, 2014
A group exhibition featuring the work of sixteen artists whose photographic images conjure suggestion out of structure, semblance out of geometry. Photography, despite its seemingly tenacious bond to descriptive reality, is in essence a fiction, a visual improvisation both generated and made tangible by the very borders that define it: the rectangle or the square.
"I NEED MY MEMORIES. THEY ARE MY DOCUMENTS."
September 11 – October 31, 2015
“I need my memories. They are my documents.”, (Ulf Küster, Louise Bourgeois, P. 43) curated by Nandita Raman is group exhibition features photographs and videos by five artists who work with a repository of existing visual materials. Despite the slipperiness of memory, Louise Bourgeois insists that they are her documents and adds, “You have to differentiate between memories. Are you going to them or are they coming to you? If you are going to them, you are wasting time. Nostalgia is not productive.” Documentation is often done to create an archive, a remembrance, but Bourgeois reverses this process choosing to rely on the mutable and the uncertain. The paradoxical place between memory and documents is the location of the works in this exhibition.