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Gauri Gill The
Americans
Gill’s color photographs are simultaneously humorous, poignant,
ironic, and beguiling
WSN Bureau
 Stanford :
Shot across the United States from 2000 to 2007,Gill's photographs
document the Indian diaspora as it has settled across the country in
rural areas, small towns and big cities, both retaining its
traditional signifiers of Indian identity and merging within a
larger American plurality. The resulting color photographs are
simultaneously humorous, poignant, ironic, and beguiling. Gill's
portrayal of her subjects and their lives emerges through her
strict attention to detail and sympathetic juxtapositions. From the
forthcoming catalog essay by critic and curator Gayatri
Sinha:
"Nearly five decades after [American photographer] Robert Frank,
Gauri Gill takes a series of solitary journeys through America
traveling extensively from New York and New Jersey to California to
the Midwest and five Southern states. She moves outward, from the
nucleus of family and friends to their networks, through a map lined
with the material and psychological presence of migrants. The
resultant body of photographs.
"The Americans," emerges as a palimpsest that pays homage to Frank
as much as it documents the new Americans - Indian immigrants. That
Gill addresses her subjects with the transnational gaze of the
traveling photographer brings her subject within the potent
discourse of migration and diaspora, post-coloniality and the new
world. Set in the chromatic intimacy of the candid photograph, it is
inscribed by the material residue of two cultures, of the glittering
flecks of Bollywood and
Hollywood, the Indian and the American dream."
The exhibition has already been on view at Bose Pacia, Kolkata
(February 16 - March 8); Nature Morte Gallery,
New Delhi, March 15-29; Matthieu Foss Gallery, Mumbai (April 10-24);
and will travel to Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago (October 4 -
December 28); and
Bose Pacia Gallery,
New York (January 9 -
February 14, 2009).
Gauri Gill's perceptive photo exhibition is currently on at 419
Lasuen Mall, Department of Art & Art History at Stanford
University's art gallery and can be viewed till August 17
Tuesday-Friday between 10 am-5 pm and on Saturday and Sunday between
1 pm and 5 pm . For any more info, pl call (650) 723-2842.
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July, 2008
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