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Charan Singh will have an essay in the forthcoming issue of TAP (Trans Asia Photography) Journal. "Photographic Rehearsal: A Still-Unfolding Narrative,” will be in the May/June 2021 issue, the first issue under new editorship.
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Read moreQiana Mestrich, whose latest series Thrall was recently on exhibit at sepiaEYE (February 15 - April 15, 2021), will be joined in conversation with Tasweer Photo Festival Qatar's Artistic Director, Charlotte Cotton.
The conversation will focusing on Mestrich’s creative journey through to her latest photographic series, Thrall. Mestrich will also talk about her impetus for founding Dodge & Burn: Decolonizing Photography History in 2007, which began as a blog and also functions as a monthly critique group online.
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Read moreArtist Annu Palakunnathu Matthew and sepiaEYE director Esa Epstein will be in conversation online for A Peek Behind the Curtain: Conversations Between Photographers + Their Dealers on May 18, 12pm EST. This ongoing 90-minute series is geared toward photographers and the curious collector, going behind-the-scenes to have an honest and open conversation between a dealer and one of their artists.
The conversation will cover how dealers meet photographers/artists, how they work together, how a gallery defines its brand, how new talent is discovered, and the challenges of running a gallery today. Collector, advisor, and Maine Media faculty member, Alice Sachs Zimet will moderate.
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Join Dr. Paul Sternberger and Associate Curator of Contemporary Asian Art Carol Huh for a conversation with Delhi-based artist Vivan Sundaram focused on the development of his multifaceted practice. The subject of the 2019 book, Vivan Sundaram is Not a Photographer by Ruth Rosengarten, Sundaram crisscrosses boundaries of genre and medium to produce powerful installations that are both shaped by and transcend photographic modes. How can we better understand the artist’s diverse world of methods and materials? How are the museum’s own photo holdings from Sundaram’s Re-Take of Amrita series best situated within his broader oeuvre? Following the discussion, the curators and Sundaram will take questions from the audience in this special live event.
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Read moreVivan Sundaram's work is on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Epic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera" exhibition. (On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 921)
“Epic Abstraction” features large-scale abstract painting and sculpture from the 1940s through the early twenty-first century, drawn primarily from the Met collection. Abstract Expressionism serves as the springboard for a thematic installation that intersperses enduring icons with works by lesser-known artists and debuts new acquisitions. Many of the artists represented worked in large formats because they sought not only to have the scope to fully explore line, color, shape, and texture, but also to evoke expansive – “epic”-ideas and subjects, including time, history, the body, and existential concerns of the self.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
Atul Bhalla is included in the book, Running Falling Flying Floating Crawling, published by Saint Lucy Books, 2020 and edited by Mark Alice Durant, with contributions by Jean Dykstra, Cig Harvey, Marvin Heiferman, Jennifer Blessing, Susan Bright, & David Campany.
Running Falling Flying Floating Crawling is a loose compendium of photographs and texts that picture, examine, explore, and/or suggest the human body in states of abandon, helplessness, terror, subjugation, serenity, and transcendence.
Nude, Beatrice Pediconi's third solo exhibition at the Sara Zanin Gallery, is curated by Cecilia Canziani and will be on from February 5 to April 15, 2021.
“Untitled, the series of work I am presenting, is the result of a drawing process meant to physically express loss. These drawings are the result of a migration, and their volatile and minimal traces are the sole witnesses to a story. They represent an irreversible transformation. The process of manipulating a material that is used to impress photo paper is an operation that interrogates how our past is mediated, transformed, and often ruined. By recycling these strips of Polaroid emulsion to create drawings on paper, I explore the degradation of memory and the corruption of our past. Drawing becomes the medium to seal our inevitable losses.” - Beatrice Pediconi
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Z2O Sara Zanin
Rome
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew is part of the second of two conversations with the participating artists in the exhibition “Digital Breath: Video and Sound Art in the Age of Global Connectivity,” guest curated by multimedia artist Brian C. O’Malley.
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, John Devault, Lauren Mantecón, and Joseph Fortune will join O’Malley to discuss their individual explorations of the theme “breath” during this other-worldly time of the pandemic. Through this lens, each Digital Breath artist has created a compelling and thought-provoking response that asks us to consider human connection and disconnection.
Talk will be delivered live via Zoom on April 14, 2021, 5:30-6:30pm EST, and the link will be sent directly to registrants on the day before the talk.
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Read moreSpanning 6 venues in Alappuzha and Ernakulam, ‘Lokame Tharavadu’ ‘ലോകമേ തറവാട്’ (The World Is One Family), is a large-scale curated contemporary art exhibition of Malayali artists from all around the world. Organized by The Kochi Biennale Foundation and the Government of Kerala, over 260 artists will be exhibiting their works. Works from Annu Palakunnathu Matthew's series, ReGeneration, will be on view.
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Alappuzha & Ernakulam, India
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s Moon from the To Majority Minority series opens the Newport Art Museum exhibition, “Digital Breath: Video & Sound Art in the Age of Global Connectivity.”
Curated by Brian C. O’Malley, the exhibition brings together the work of seven artists with fresh and diverse perspectives exploring the theme of “breath” during the era of Covid with compelling video and sound artworks.
Matthew’s work weaves together 5 visual stories of immigrants lives through images & text.
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Newport Art Museum
Rhode Island
Nandita Raman has been selected as a semifinalist in The 95th ANNUAL International Competition (2020) at The Print Center. The ANNUAL features works by 35 of the finest international artists currently using photography or printmaking as critical components in their work. The jury, David Campany (ICP) and Larissa Goldston (ULAE) reviewed over 3,000 images and videos submitted by 635 artists. Submissions came from 45 states and 30 countries across the globe.
Raman's Body Is A Situation is a re-looking at the city of Varanasi (Benares) in India, which features prominently in the mystique and map of the East. It examines tropes of representation originating from the colonial gaze while relying on the body for awareness of place, culture, politics and history.
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The Print Center
Philadelphia
In her new book, Unseeing Empire: Photography, Representation, South Asian America, Professor Bakirathi Mani (English Literature at Swarthmore College) investigates how images of empire haunt contemporary Asian American visual cultures.
In this lecture Bakirathi Mani is joined by artist Annu Palakunnathu Matthew and Contemporary Curator Jodi Throckmorton for a discussion on Matthew’s series, An Indian From India in relation to Edward S. Curtis's photographs of Indigenous peoples and Mani’s recent publication.
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Philadelphia
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew and Qiana Mestrich will be a part of The Center for Photography Woodstock’s 2020 virtual Symposium on Race, Activism and Photography. The Keynote Address will be by artist Carrie Mae Weems.
“Race, Activism and Photography will address an array of issues including the history of photography through the prism of race, representation and identity, and activism, and examines how these topics have evolved from 1839 to the present; the economic and social impact of systemic racism, and how these inequities have been represented in the media; how artists, within the context of fine art, are using their work to address oppression and discrimination; and, finally, how artists are responding to the challenging and unique opportunities that lie ahead in the art world.”
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Center for Photography at Woodstock
Premiering online Monday, November 30, 6pm EST and available to stream starting December 1, World AIDS Day, Transmission Day will feature six short videos considering the impact of HIV and AIDS beyond the United States.
Featuring videos by Jorge Bordello (Mexico), Gevi Dimitrakopoulou (Greece), George Stanley Nsamba (Uganda), Las Indetectables (Chile), Lucía Egaña Rojas (Chile/Spain), and Charan Singh (India/UK).
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Visual AIDS
New York
Join Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Asma Naeem (Chief Curator, Baltimore Museum of Art), and Carol Huh (Curator of Contemporary Art, Freer Sackler, Smithsonian) in a conversation about her series, THE UNREMEMBERED: Indian Soldiers from the Italian Campaign of World War II. The UNREMEMBERED is a photo, video, and multi-media project on the Indian soldiers who fought for the British in World War II.
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National Museum of Asian Art
Smithsonian, Freer Gallery of Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Washington, DC
Karia’s Population Crisis series set in Bombay will be highlighted in the conference: “The Emotional lives of Cities: Pandemic, Protest, and Urban Life.” Featuring speakers from Monash University, The University of Queensland, and the University of Sydney, this public forum and development seminar will re-examine how we inhabit cities and how societal and climate crises will effect our future.
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The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions
Kedron Room, Brisbane City Hall
SepiaEYE Director, Esa Epstein, is a contributor to a forthcoming book from Editions Textuel, Paris. She is writing on the work of Pamela Singh, in a book entitled, World History of Women in Photography which is slated for release this year.
Editions Textuel
13, quai de Conti
75006 Paris
France
Qiana Mestrich will be taking part in a Virtual Seminar, one part of the eight part series hosted by NYU Washington DC. Women and Migration(s) explores the importance of the arts and public policy in the migrations of women displaced by climate crisis, economic fluctuations, domestic violence, the pandemic, and other factors.
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Redefining Resistance: "Joy" as Resistance Part II Virtual Webinar (via Zoom)
NYU Washington, DC
The 2020/21 speaker series by the Photographic Resource Center features four photographers working in a range of styles ranging from documentary photography to installation. Annu Palakunnathu Matthew will be doing a Zoom/online lecture on her photo-based installation work drawing on archival photographs as a source of inspiration to re-examine neglected historical narratives.
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Photographic Resource Center
Cambridge