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Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s ongoing project, THE UNREMEMBERED: Indian Soldiers from the Italian Campaign of World War II, will be on view at the 14th Curitiba International Biennial, Brazil. The theme of the Biennial is Open Borders. To learn more about The Unremembered, and how to contribute, visit the project on Matthew’s website.
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Rua Marechal hermes, 999 Centro Civico, Curitiba, Brazil
Images from Singh's Tree Hugger series will be featured in Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance - Act 3.
Still I Rise sets to explore the history of resistance movements and alternative forms of living through a gendered perspective, grounded in intersectional, queer and feminist thinking. With over 100 works by some 50 practitioners, this exhibition looks at cases of resistance from across the world - from the domestic sphere to large-scale uprisings, spanning the late 19th century to the present.
Venue 1:
27 Oct 2018 – 27 Jan 2019
Nottingham Contemporary
Nottingham, NG1 2GB
England
Venue 2:
9 Feb – 2 Jun 2019
De La Warr Pavilion,
Marina, Bexhill-on-Sea TN40 1DP, England
The Crypt Gallery
Euston Road (Entrance Dukes's Road), London, NW1 2BA
England
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Act 3:
Arnolfini
16 Narrow Quay
Bristol BS1 4QA
England
Images from Serena Chopra’s Majnu Ka Tilla series are on view in Crossing Lines, Constructing Home: Displacement and Belonging in Contemporary Art at the Harvard Art Museums. The exhibition investigates two parallel ideas: national, political, and cultural conceptions of boundaries and borders; and the evolving hybrid spaces, identities, languages, and beliefs created by the movement of peoples.
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Crossing Lines, Constructing Home: Displacement and Belonging in Contemporary Art
Special Exhibitions Gallery, Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
Photographic works by Atul Bhalla and Vivan Sundaram are featured in A Time for Farewells. Curated by Premjish Achari, the exhibit "[casts] aside the constraints of traditional notions and existing power structures, the artists of the exhibition present sculptures, drawings, videos, and photographic works that collectively imagine a future radically different from our present, in the hope that the act of imagining can be an impetus for change."
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A Time for Farewells
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College
370 Lancaster Avenue
Haverford, PA 19041
USA
Singh's Treasure Map series is being displayed along works by Carrie Mae Weems, Berenice Abbott, and Jen Davis from the museum's permanent collection on the theme of “Photography and Memory.” The installation includes thirty-one works that explore how photography has served as a tool of remembrance and memorialization from the nineteenth century to the present.
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Photography and Memory
Philadelphia Museum of Art
2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 19130
USA
The Laurie M. Tisch Gallery will be showing selected works, including many from her series The Song of Deborah, which explores changes in her daughter, after she enlisted in the IDF. In The Song of Deborah, Sher presents a series of works that explore the mental and emotional changes in her daughter, Debby, and Debby’s friends, who enlisted in the IDF when they turned 18. The series also reflects the change that took place in the artist as she revisited issues she herself explored when she was the same age as her daughter is now.
Also on view are earlier works which address her own complex identity and relationship to her home country and culture.
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Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan
Laurie M. Tisch Gallery
334 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY 10023
USA
Since 2009, sepiaEYE has showcased a wide spectrum of 20th-century and contemporary photo-based works, installations, and videos, including over 50 exhibitions in New York City.
The theme of one of our shows, Rectangular Squares (2014) was about framing and focus in photography—as in life. It served as a strong testament to the thoughtful brilliance and talent of the artists of which we have had the honor to exhibit.
And now it is time to reframe sepiaEYE.
In order to better support these visionary artists, we are refocusing our efforts and have closed our physical space in Chelsea. We will continue to curate, exhibit, and promote our gallery artists, along with new international projects underlining our commitment to the art of photography.
With much gratitude and appreciation to our artists, friends, collectors, curators, and public who have supported us over the years. We look forward to keeping you in our community as we embark on our next adventures.
Please continue to follow our projects and artists through our website, sepiaeye.com, social media, and email.
Esa Epstein & the sepiaEYES:
Akemi Yoneyama, Sayuri Rupani-Hayes, Melanie Roberts, Yashna Kaul, Nandinee Phookan, Benedetta Buffetti, Efren Olivares, Sarah Goldberg & Russell Barsanti.
Chosen from the 245 candidates nominated in March 2019, the World Press Photo Foundation is pleased to announce the participants selected for the 26th edition of the Joop Swart Masterclass. Soumya Sankar Bose has been selected as one of the final 12 for the 2019 Joop Swart Masterclass that will be held mid-September at the World Press Photo Foundation in Amsterdam.
The Joop Swart Masterclass is the World Press Photo Foundation’s best known educational program. It encourages new and diverse approaches to documentary, visual journalism, and storytelling. Run as an immersive and interactive educational experience, the Joop Swart Masterclass enables the exchange of knowledge and experience in a meeting place for practitioners who often work alone.
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World Press Photo Foundation
Haarlemmerweg 4,
1014 BE Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Curated by Jonathan Weinberg, Tyler Cann, and Drew Sawyer, "Art after Stonewall, 1969–1989" will be presented in two parts: at New York University’s Grey Art Gallery and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprisings, the exhibition features over 200 works of art and related visual materials exploring the impact of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) liberation movement on visual culture. Works from Sunil Gupta's “Christopher Street, New York 1976” will be on view.
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Grey Art Gallery
New York University
100 Washington Square East
New York, NY 10003
USA
Works from Soumya Sankar Bose's series, Full Moon on a Dark Night will be on view at Refest 2019.
Inspired by the subconscious, Full Moon on a Dark Night shares stories from the artist’s LGBT friends in India – their rights, dreams, and desires. In a society that prevents them from living a ‘normal’ life, this work imagines a world in which freedom to live according to one’s own desires exists for all.
Refest is CultureHub's annual festival that brings artists, activists, and technologists together to explore our role in re-shaping the future.
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CultureHub NYC
47 Great Jones St. 3rd + 4th Fl.
New York, NY 10012 USA
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
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.
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
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
Beatrice Pediconi's video installation, Alien, will be on view in the exhibition, Chi utopia mangia le mele (Eating Apples in Utopia) which is part of Art Verona. Curators, Adriana Polveroni and Gabriele Tosi.
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Ex Dogana Vecchia
Verona
Italy
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
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
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
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