(October to December 2024)
Curated by Kriti Film Club and organised in collaboration with
Curated by Kriti Film Club and organised in collaboration with
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA)
Curators Note (by Aanchal Kapur)
An exciting winter is before us, as we are witness to "The Elemental You exhibition, presented by KNMA as the first in a series dedicated to the practices of South Asian diaspora artists, curated by Akansha Rastogi and team. The exhibition initiates a critical dialogue among the works of three artists: Simryn Gill, Neha Choksi, and Hajra Waheed. Featuring substantial bodies of work from each artist, the exhibition begins with an exploration of the element ‘Earth’ as a geological, cultural and material experience." (Press note, KNMA)
A series of programmes are being organised alongside the exhibition and the Kriti Film Club has the privilege to curate a series of film screenings and festival as part of it. Read on to unwrap the Kriti Film Club's curatorial thought-process.
Silent and animated; musical and visual; voiced and textured, the language of cinema unfolds itself to our senses, alongside the works of three artists and special projects at ‘The Elemental You’ exhibition. Three evenings of film screenings (26 October; 9th and 23rd November) and a one-day film festival (21 December) will bring together non-fiction and fiction content to viewers, with facilitated conversations to enrich the whole experience.
To think like a Rock with Neha Choksi’s sculptures; and come home to the resilient stories filmed in the Deccan and the Himalayan region. To listen and observe with Hajra Waheed’s hands on paint and paper; as the sounds of time and movement are heard from salt workers in the desert, with murmurs and rhythms from the forests and mountains. To feel the (dis)connect, disruption and challenge beinghood with Simryn Gill’s material installations and photos; as a poetic elegy is told on the trauma and alienation of a family in a mining region. To imagine and sleep/ rest, in light and darkness, through the exhibits; while being witness to the human and natural world in rural and urban landscapes through moving images at the film festival.
The films have been programmed keeping in mind the conceptualisation and flow of ‘The Elemental You’ exhibition, as the context for visitors to have an immersive experience through the exhibition and the films they engage with. The films will be followed by conversations facilitated by the Kriti Film Club between the audience, the filmmakers and/ or protagonist and invited speakers (including authors, academics, policy environmentalists, artists, journalists).
The exhibition and the films will reveal themselves to the viewer…sometimes still, abstract and lost…sometimes playful, poetic and cultural…sometimes quiet, flowing and earthy…making Autumn to Winter 2024 a deeply reflective experience for collective beings visiting KNMA, New Delhi.
VENUE: Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA)
145, DLF South Court Mall, Saket
New Delhi – 110 017
SCHEDULE
(Click on the date hyperlink for details, updated two weeks prior)
26th October 2024 (Saturday)
9th November 2024 (saturday)
23rd November 2024 (Saturday)
21st December 2024 (Saturday)
OPEN FOR ALL, FREE ADMISSION
Curators Note (by Aanchal Kapur)
An exciting winter is before us, as we are witness to "The Elemental You exhibition, presented by KNMA as the first in a series dedicated to the practices of South Asian diaspora artists, curated by Akansha Rastogi and team. The exhibition initiates a critical dialogue among the works of three artists: Simryn Gill, Neha Choksi, and Hajra Waheed. Featuring substantial bodies of work from each artist, the exhibition begins with an exploration of the element ‘Earth’ as a geological, cultural and material experience." (Press note, KNMA)
A series of programmes are being organised alongside the exhibition and the Kriti Film Club has the privilege to curate a series of film screenings and festival as part of it. Read on to unwrap the Kriti Film Club's curatorial thought-process.
Silent and animated; musical and visual; voiced and textured, the language of cinema unfolds itself to our senses, alongside the works of three artists and special projects at ‘The Elemental You’ exhibition. Three evenings of film screenings (26 October; 9th and 23rd November) and a one-day film festival (21 December) will bring together non-fiction and fiction content to viewers, with facilitated conversations to enrich the whole experience.
To think like a Rock with Neha Choksi’s sculptures; and come home to the resilient stories filmed in the Deccan and the Himalayan region. To listen and observe with Hajra Waheed’s hands on paint and paper; as the sounds of time and movement are heard from salt workers in the desert, with murmurs and rhythms from the forests and mountains. To feel the (dis)connect, disruption and challenge beinghood with Simryn Gill’s material installations and photos; as a poetic elegy is told on the trauma and alienation of a family in a mining region. To imagine and sleep/ rest, in light and darkness, through the exhibits; while being witness to the human and natural world in rural and urban landscapes through moving images at the film festival.
The films have been programmed keeping in mind the conceptualisation and flow of ‘The Elemental You’ exhibition, as the context for visitors to have an immersive experience through the exhibition and the films they engage with. The films will be followed by conversations facilitated by the Kriti Film Club between the audience, the filmmakers and/ or protagonist and invited speakers (including authors, academics, policy environmentalists, artists, journalists).
The exhibition and the films will reveal themselves to the viewer…sometimes still, abstract and lost…sometimes playful, poetic and cultural…sometimes quiet, flowing and earthy…making Autumn to Winter 2024 a deeply reflective experience for collective beings visiting KNMA, New Delhi.
VENUE: Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA)
145, DLF South Court Mall, Saket
New Delhi – 110 017
SCHEDULE
(Click on the date hyperlink for details, updated two weeks prior)
26th October 2024 (Saturday)
9th November 2024 (saturday)
23rd November 2024 (Saturday)
21st December 2024 (Saturday)
OPEN FOR ALL, FREE ADMISSION
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