Sharmila Samant
Sharmila Samant was born 1967 BirthBombay, India.
Lives and works in HomeMumbai.
Categories: Installation art Multimedia Performance Art Sydney Biennale
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Indian artist, Sharmila Samant, was born in Mumbai where she currently lives and works. Her work deals with issues of globalisation, identity and consumer culture. She spent four years in Europe from 1998 when she was resident at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and in London at Gasworks. The experience of transition and being an outsider sharpened her position as an artist who offers a powerful critique on the market forces that define cultural practices of peripheral nations…
accompanying the work is ‘sounds of the silenced’ in which barrels for seed storage have been collected from across india. these empty containers act as resonance chambers in which a soundscape of women can be heard singing while planting and harvesting in the fields. the last element of the overall installation is ‘gilt’ which will be an auction of rice sculptures held on september 6, 2008. money raised will be donated to the victims of suicides which have been a result of crop failures and shortage of seeds for harvesting…
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Alongside Sharmila Samant’s widely exhibited Handmade saree (1999) fabricated from Coca-cola bottle caps, during Shanghai Contemporary, in the curated section, called, "Best of Discoveries," Samant presented her ‘custom-made’ sarees at her booth from a preset list of patterns and bottlecap options…
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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
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South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
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James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon |
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