Cinema Play House Film Program at MoMI

December 8–January 26, 2019

Organized by guest curator Priyadarshini Shanker with Nandita Raman and sepiaEYE, this series accompanies Nandita Raman’s photography exhibition Cinema Play House, which captures the magical allure of fading cinema halls in India. The screening series, in conversation with Raman’s black-and-white photographs, approaches the subject of cinema from a multi-dimensional perspective. Non-fiction Indian films explore themes of film archiving, restoration, production, distribution, and exhibition. In order to spotlight modes of cinematic representation that do not pertain to conventional notions of the “documentary,” the series also includes experimental essay films, narrative shorts and feature-length ruminative documentaries. It also brings to light the work of women filmmakers, showcasing the films of four contemporary Indian female directors.

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Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35 Ave.,
Astoria, NY 11106

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A Conversation with Nandita Raman at sepiaEYE

Thursday, November 15, 6:30 to 8 PM

Please join us at sepiaEYE for an enlightening conversation with artist Nandita Raman as well as two distinguished scholars of photography and film, Paul Sternberger and Priyadarshini Shanker. We will explore Raman’s personal connections to some of her work as well as additional influences on her choice of subject matter. The discussion will delve into the choices Raman has made for each of her series regarding photographic technology, approaches to composition, process, and color and how her approach is informed by but distinguished from documentary photography.

RSVP required, limited seating available.

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Annu Palakunnathu Matthew in One in Three at Lesley University

November 1 - December 2, 2018

Works from Matthew's mixed media series, Bollywood Satirized, will be featured in One In Three: Comparative Perspectives on Gender Violence. The exhibit is part of a larger initiative to bring attention to the topic of violence against women, including a day-long conference at Lesley. One in Three is curated by Meenakshi Chabra and Sonia Perez-Villanueva, and will present work by artists addressing themes associated with violence against women.

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Lunder Arts Center, Roberts Gallery
1801 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02140
United States

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Sunil Gupta in Life-Blood, Bloomsbury Festival

October 17 – 21, 2018

Images from Gupta's "From Here to Eternity” will be featured in a group exhibition on "Activist Art" entitled Life-Blood as part of the Bloombury Festival.

Sunil Gupta on this body of work: "I made these works partly in response to a period of illness brought on by the HIV. I thought that it might be time to think about how the virus affects my life. I ended up with these six diptychs. They were made in the darkroom as straight forward negative positive prints. Printing one's work in the darkroom is still magical as opposed to the digital printing that has largely taken over. The process itself seemed therapeutic."

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The Crypt Gallery
Euston Road (Entrance Dukes's Road), London, NW1 2BA
England

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Nandita Raman, Cinema Play House at Museum of the Moving Image

September 15–January 27, 2019

Concurrently with her exhibition at sepiaEYE, Nandita Raman's cinema hall photographs are currently on view at The Museum of the Moving Image.  This solo exhibition of Cinema Play House will include a film program presented by Dr. Priyadarshini Shanker, PhD, Adjunct Faculty at NYU and Columbia University.

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Astoria, NY, USA

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Atul Bhalla, You always step into the same river for Watershed

September 10-21, 2018

As part of Watershed, a multi-disciplinary program that "enmeshes arts and science," Atul Bhalla's presents You always step into the same river: Looking for lost water (Explorations at the Cradle). Fully utilizing the echo-y atmosphere of the Atrium in The Chamber of Mines Building, Bhalla's installation combines photographs, performative photographs, video with sculptural and textual interventions, and performances.

Bhalla has been involved in projects which highlight the use/misuse of water as well as its religious and mythical significance in his hometown of New Delhi. His work for Watershed will examine water as a repository of history, meaning and myth within the context of Johannesburg gold mining, taking references of land and water relations from historical (oral and non-oral) contexts.

“I’ll also attempt to explore how people live and survive in and around the dumps, developing local language/s and words for operations and acts that may not have existed pre-mining days. I intend to use Zulu as the language of communication within the work,” says Bhalla.

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Chamber of Mines Building
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, 2000
South Africa

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Osamu James Nakagawa in Photography to End All Photography

August 31 - December 30, 2018

Osamu James Nakagawa's Banta series will be featured in the Brandts Museum for Kunst & Visuel Kultur in Copenhagen for the Photography Biennale 2018. He will be showing prints from Banta that are larger and "hyper real"  than previously exhibited images. The Pho­tog­ra­phy Bi­en­nale 2018's title, Photography to End All Photography, focuses on "post-pho­to­graphic pho­tography." The par­tic­i­pat­ing artists all cre­ate amaz­ing pho­tographs that are al­most impossi­ble to dis­tin­guish from re­al­ity. But on closer in­spec­tion, the pho­tos re­veal the most sur­pris­ing de­tails that make us doubt whether we can en­tirely trust our own eyes.

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Brandts Museum for Kunst & Visuel Kultur
TORV 1
5000 Odense, Copenhagen
Denmark

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Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Former Glory at the RISD Museum

July 27, 2018 – January 20, 2019

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew's image, Flags, from her An Indian from India series is featured in the exhibition, Former Glory. With photographs, prints, and paintings spanning more than 150 years, the exhibition questions our emotional connections to the flag and explores its presence in domestic and international communities. Humorous, violent, critical, and sentimental, these varied works acknowledge and reflect on American nationalism and our complex histories.

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RISD Museum
Providence
United States

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Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Sunil Gupta + Charan Singh: Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2018

December 12, 2018 – March 29, 2019

Works by Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, and Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh's project: Delhi: Communities of Belonging are among the first announced for inclusion to the 2018 Kochi-Muziris Biennale. Curated by artist Anita Dube, although the vision of the other biennale has not been stated firmly yet, she has expressed: "I want to explore the vexed question of the relationship between art and politics," she says, "as well as the possibilities of a non-alienated life."* Congratulations to the artists, and we look forward to seeing the Biennale take shape.

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Various locations
Kochi, Kerala
India

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Betwixt and Between, Curated by Annu Palakunnathu Matthew

July 13 – August 18, 2018

Betwixt and Between: Photography, Time and Place, curated by Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, features photographic works by: Hasan Elahi, Jodie Mim Goodnough, Meggan Gould, Sunil Gupta, Abigail Gumbiner, Yashna Kaul, Mark Klett & Byron Wolfe, Netta Laufer, Olivia B. McCullough, Abelardo Morell, Lorie Novak, Pierre & Gilles, Meghann Riepenhoff, Ian Mohon, Lauren Semivan, Starn Twins, Millee Tibbs, Penelope Umbrico, Clement Valla, and Jay Simple.

"This exhibition highlights artists that explore different processes and possibilities in photography with a strong emphasis on points where the various technologies amplify and augment the artist’s concept. Rather than arguing for a monolithic definition of photography, this exhibition is betwixt and between, with a three-pronged approach.”

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Jamestown Arts Center
18 Valley Street
Jamestown, Rhode Island 02835, USA

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Vivan Sundaram: Disjunctures at Haus der Kunst, Munich

June 29 - July 10, 2018

"The presentation at Haus der Kunst is the most comprehensive and wideranging survey of Sundaram’s work at a European institution. The display is conceived as a sequence of juxtapositions with a view to suggesting how formal and thematic concerns ricochet from one work to another. History, Memory, Archive: the three keywords that the artist has designated as the overarching concerns of his practice are the signposts, as it were, for articulating the overall structure of the exhibition, an open-ended framework for exploring the connections or disjunctures between these terms and themes." - Curator Deepak Ananth, Assistant Curator Anna Schneider

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Haus der Kunst
Prinzregentenstraße 1
80538 Munich

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Charan Singh in Cast of Characters Exhibition at The Center

June 14 – September 16, 2018

Charan Singh's work can be viewed in the group exhibition, Cast of Characters, a salon-style exhibition curated by artist Liz Collins. Collins has transformed The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center into a lush, densely patterned salon filled with portraits made by over 100 LGBTQ artists.

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The Center
New York
United States

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sepiaEYE Artists at FotoFest Biennial

March 10th - April 22nd, 2018

sepiaEYE artists Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Atul Bhalla, and Serena Chopra will be a part of the FotoFest 2018 Biennial. The theme for this year is INDIA - Contemporary Photographic and New Media Art focusing on 48 Contemporary Photographic and New Media Artists from India. Organized by Lead Curator Sunil Gupta and FotoFest Executive Director Steven Evans, FotoFest 2018 will be one of the largest exhibitions of contemporary photography by artists of Indian origin to be presented in the United States.

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INDIA - Contemporary Photographic and New Media Art
Houston, Texas
United States

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sepiaEYE trip to Houston

March 8th - 11th, 2018
 

sepiaEYE is pleased to have organized a trip to Houston during the FotoFest 2018 Biennial focusing on INDIA: Contemporary Photographic and New Media Art. The program is geared towards those with an interest for South Asian arts and includes VIP Fotofest passes as well as curator and artist guided tours through museums including the Museum of Fine Art, Houston Center of Photography, Contemporary Art Museum, and Asia Society. 

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