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INDIGO, an exhibition of textiles by Laura Kina and Shelly Jyoti will be inaugurated at the Gandhi Memorial Center in cooperation with the Embassy of India and with support of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations on November 16th at the Gandhi Memorial Center, from 2pm to 4pm. Mr. Taranjit Singh Sandhu, Deputy Chief of Mission, will be the distinguished guest for the afternoon. The exhibition features Laura Kina’s “Devon Avenue Sampler” and Shelly Jyoti’s “Indigo Narratives”. The common thread between both bodies of work is the color indigo blue from India’s colonial past, to indigo-dyed Japanese kasuri fabrics and boro patchwork quilts, through blue threads of a Jewish prayer tallis, to working class blue jeans in the U.S. Since 2009, “Indigo” has exhibited in galleries and cultural centers in Baroda, New Delhi, Mumbai, Seattle, Miami, and Chicago.
MY RECENT INSTALLATION
for ‘CARE Package c/o New Delhi India’
Group show by women artists of Asian or Asian descent at India International Centre until November15, 2013
Shelly Jyoti :
RECIPROCITY OF LOVE: SHAGUN 2013
‘Beyond batuaas 101 : Textiles as gift Containers’
Size: variable
While textile container may perform the practical function of holding, carrying and covering everyday items, they are also objects of creativity made with a designing and purposeful eye. ‘Beyond the Batuaas101’ celebrates the use of textiles as utilitarian containers on joyous occasions and gift giving practice. Symbolically, the exchange of ‘money envelopes’ occurs during all auspicious family events from illness until the last journey of death from generations in India. A contemporary dialogue of ‘Gift giving’ is an expression of universal love and a part of the unwritten social contract that embodies strong cultural, socio-political, and economic codings.
inspired by Marcel Mauss book “Gift”1923 which notes the expressions of love that helps balances the power of relationships in the tradition of reciprocity and gift exchange.The hanging site specific investigates the manipulation of varied richly coloured textile envelopes suspended at different heights with sacred red ,yellow, green thread ‘mouli’.The installation explores the placement and richness of silk brocade to heighten the visual effect.view more;https://www.facebook.com/shelly.jyoti/media_set?set=a.10152007722694577.1073741841.550454576&type=1
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SHELLY JYOTI
SALT: THE GREAT MARCH
Re-Contextualising the contemporary Azrakh traditions in contemporary Art and Craft
September 28-October 20, 2013
Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts , New Delhi, India
Shelly Jyoti Salt: The Great March’ THE MARCH: INTEGRATING KHADI 2013 Site specific installation: 30 meters of 8ply khadi, printed with Sanskrit calligraphy.
Overview:
“I learnt from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus, the very right to live accrues to us only when we do the duty of citizenship of the world. From this one fundamental statement, perhaps it is easy enough to define the duties of Man and of Woman and correlate every right to some corresponding duty to be first performed” -Mahatma Gandhi wrote to Julian Huxley, Director General, UNESCO (May 1947)
Exploring salt as a symbol of non-violence and investigating the sarvodaya theory in the practice of nonviolence, tolerance, peace and harmony through the narratives of swadeshi politics, these works draw upon the history of India’s colonial past and Mahatma Gandhi’s 1930 Dandi March, which began the Salt Satyagraha and became an important part of the Indian independence movement. In her new series, ‘Salt: The Great march 2013’, artist Shelly Jyoti explores the possibilities of establishing alternative societies where Gandhian ideals of ‘swadharma’ and ‘sarvodaya’ could be adhered to and sustained with sincere implementation. In a society where patriarchal values threaten the free existence of women, the artist feels that re-introducing Gandhian ideals with critical changes would function as a correctional force.
This new complementary body of works are complementary are continuation of Jyoti’s earlier series, ‘INDIGO Neel Darpan’. Neel Darpan (1860) is a literary text, symbolic of yet another anti-colonial, nonviolence movement that took place in 1917-18 as ‘champaran’ movement for indigo farmers in India. Shelly Jyoti’s new works feature a large khadi fabric with Sanskrit calligraphic print as a site specific installation, two sculptural installations of khadi yarn (aatis) and pipe cleaners, twenty five contemporary artworks with azrakh dyeing/ printing incorporating needle work on khadi fabric and multimedia spoken poetry.
Public Lecture: October 9, 2013, 11.30-2.30 pm-Lecture Hall, IGNCA New Delhi Re-Building: A Sense of Nationalism by Shelly jyoti
Click to view the E Catalog: http://issuu.com/shellyjyoti/docs/brochure_1-64
IGNCA Publication
Shelly Jyoti Salt: The Great March’ Site specific installation ‘Solidarity’-90 Azrakh textile sculptures,108×108 Inches 2013
Shelly Jyoti Salt: The Great March’ 70x22inches each panel,Azrakh dyeing , printing and quilting on khadi fabric 2013 Click to view Gallery of Works: https://shellyjyoti.com/salt-the-great-march-2013/gallery/
Shelly Jyoti Salt: The Great March’ 60x46inches ,Azrakh dyeing , printing and needle work on khadi fabric,2013
Salt: The Great March- Important E-links
Press Release: https://shellyjyoti.com/salt-the-great-march-2013/press-release/
Artist Statement :https://shellyjyoti.com/salt-the-great-march-2013/artist-statement/
Gallery of Works: https://shellyjyoti.com/salt-the-great-march-2013/gallery/
Catalog essay by Johny ML: https://shellyjyoti.com/salt-the-great-march-2013/catalogue-essay/
Gallery Installations site specific: https://shellyjyoti.com/salt-the-great-march-2013/art-installations/
Multimedia Spoken poetry:https://shellyjyoti.com/salt-the-great-march-2013/multimedia-spoken-poetry/
Press & Media Reports: https://shellyjyoti.com/press/
Opening Reception:Chief guest Karan Singh, MP, President of ICCR :https://shellyjyoti.com/salt-the-great-march-2013/installations-opening/
Shelly Jyoti
B 43 Trinity Towers, DLF Phase 5, Gurgaon 122002, Haryana.
Cell 91 958225062 Home 0124 4000154
E: shelly12@yahoo.com Website:www.shellyjyoti.com
This exhibit is presented by the Gandhi Memorial Center in cooperation with the Embassy of India and with support of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations.
Gandhi Memorial Center, 4748 Western Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20816 www.gandhimemorialcenter.org
Shelly Jyoti’s “Indigo Narratives” refer to the 19th century history of India’s indigo farmers, their oppression and Mahatma Gandhi’s subsequent non-violent resistance leading to India’s freedom. Shelly lived in Gujarat, India and her “Narratives” use traditional embroidery by rural women in Gujarat with support of Shrujan: Threads of Life and indigo resist dyeing printing on khadi fabric with the 9th generation ajrakh artisans of Gujarat famed for their bold embellished textiles. www.shellyjyoti.com
Laura Kina’s “Devon Avenue Sampler” is a portrait of her South Asian/Jewish Chicago neighborhood, West Roger’s Park, and features a bricolage of pop street signage rendered in patchwork quilt paintings. The “Sampler” includes works hand embroidered by artisans from MarketPlace: Handwork of India, a fair trade women’s organization in Mumbai, India. Laura lives and works in Chicago’s “Little India”, a vibrant multiethnic immigrant community. www.laurakina.com
and cultural centers in Baroda, New Delhi, Mumbai, Seattle, Miami, and Chicago.
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Curated by Ombretta Agró Andruff in collaboration with the artists
IIC is thrilled to announce its upcoming exhibition, CARE Package c/o New Delhi, India, with an opening reception on November 8th, 2013. The show runs from November 7–15, 2013.
Inspired by the concept of “CARE Package”, the exhibition brings together five international women artists from Asia or of Asian descent, touching venues in North America as well as Asia. The exhibition debuted in the USA at Twelve Gates Gallery in Philadelphia (October 2012) and is traveling next to IIC, New Delhi before going on to Phnom Penh, Cambodia [the city named in the title changes according to the hosting location].
A rich tradition exists throughout Asian countries of gift packages exchanged as social contract and, while unwritten, they embody strong cultural, social, political and economic codings. In North America, care packages are associated with gifts sent from loved ones to their children and youth who are away from home (usually off to camp, college, or the military). Historically the CARE package was the unit of aid at the core of the food relief effort developed in 1945 by the USA-based humanitarian CARE organization and was sent to a large number of Europeans at risk of starvation in the wake of World War II. It soon became an icon of American generosity and global leadership.
In an era where the concept of “American generosity and global leadership” is a far cry from its meaning during the post-war years and very much up for debate, the participating artists tell stories that grew out of their own personal history and cultural heritage to tackle issues of nationhood, race, gender, religion, and economic exploitation on a world scale, in the context of emergent global capitalism.
Storytelling and a deep interest in history and untold stories is a shared strategy amongst this newly formed collective of interdisciplinary women artists who have historical and contemporary links to disparate geographies such as India, Pakistan, Japan, Cambodia, Canada and the USA. In a grass roots diplomatic effort, they are collaborating with an Italian, New York/ Miami-based curator to conduct a trans-cultural dialogue between their works, their countries of origin, and the intersections and migrations between.
Artists: Shelly Bahl (born in Benares, living between New York and Toronto); Shelly Jyoti (Born in Rohtak, living in New Delhi); Laura Kina (born in Riverside, CA, to an Okinawan father and Basque/Anglo mother, and living in Chicago); Saira Wasim (born in Lahore, living in California); and Cambodian-American Anida Yoeu Ali (born in Battambang, Cambodia, raised in Chicago, currently living in Phnom Penh, Cambodia).
This New Delhi exhibition is organized by India International Centre.
About the artists and their works:
Shelly Bahl is a visual and media artist born in Benares, India, and currently based in New York City and Toronto. She received her B.F.A. (Visual Art and Art History) from York University, Toronto and her M.A. (Studio Art) from New York University. Her interdisciplinary work in drawing, painting, sculpture/ installation, photography and video, explores surreal narratives of the lives of trans-cultural women. Her work has appeared in a number of solo and group exhibitions in North America and internationally over the past 18 years.
The Sweetest Gift explores the nature of gift giving in a globalized economy, via an abandoned suitcase filled with candy. The artist explores the power relationship between the gift giver and the recipient. This dynamic will be reflected in the highly controlled enactment of the gift exchange, with detailed instructions on a note-card next to the suitcase. The gift recipients will have to explore their own fears of the unknown and trust issues in their choice to consume the gift of candy from a stranger.
Shelly Jyoti is a visual artist, fashion designer, poet, an independent researcher and a curator whose research centers on design and visual representation within the cultural context of Indian history. She is trained in fashion design and clothing technology at the National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi and earned her Master’s degree in English Literature from Punjab University in Chandigarh. She lives and works in New Delhi, India. Her writings and paintings have been published and exhibited in India & internationally.
The installation Reciprocity of love: Shagun (2012) is inspired by Marcel Mauss book “Gift” (1923) which notes the expressions of love that helps balances the power of relationships in the tradition of reciprocity and gift exchange. It consists of a mobile site specific installation created with 101 envelopes, 7×4 inches each (batuhas) made of silk brocade fabric textiles hanging from the ceiling attached with sacred thread mouli (red,yellow colour) used for festive and joyous occasions.
Laura Kina is an Associate Professor of Art, Media, and Design and distinguished Vincent de Paul Professor at DePaul University in Chicago, IL. She is a graduate of University of Illinois at Chicago (MFA 2001) and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA 1994). Born in Riverside, California in 1973 to an Okinawan father from Hawai’i and a Spanish-Basque/Anglo mother, Kina was raised in Poulsbo, WA, a small Norwegian town in the Pacific Northwest. The artist currently lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. She has shown extensively in the US and internationally and her academic work has been widely published.
Omiyage features a series of four fabric panels that portray segments of story of the artist’s father and his relationship with his absent father. The title for this series refers to the Japanese tradition of omiyage, small gifts wrapped in ornately decorated handmade fabric, while the form of the paintings derives from the patchwork quilt tradition which is a common baby gift in Hawaii.
Saira Wasim is a noted USA-based contemporary artist from Pakistan. She has carved a niche for herself with her innovative and meticulously crafted Persian miniatures, which she employs to make devastating political and social commentary. Her work has been widely feted, and has been exhibited at numerous prominent art institutions in the USA and abroad. The artist was born in Lahore, Pakistan, and currently lives in California.
Wasim’s work has always been politically charged and reflects her background and the transition ‘between’ her old and new worlds; stylistically the works are deeply committed to the tradition of Mughal miniature painting. This centuries-old art practice involves a very strict discipline and is a constructive process; it takes months to finish a single small-size painting. For this exhibition the artist created a 5-minute animation film entitled Lines of Confrontation through which she comments on the nature of the ‘strange aid packages’ sent to Pakistan from the USA.
Anida Yoeu Ali is a performance artist, writer and global agitator, who is a first generation Muslim Khmer woman born in Cambodia and raised in Chicago. Utilizing video, installation, sound, and performance, her works investigate the artistic, spiritual and political collisions of a hybrid transnational identity. She is a collaborative partner with Studio Revolt, an independent artist-run media lab that produces films, videos, installations and performance projects in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. She is a recipient of the 2011 U.S. Fulbright Fellowship to Cambodia where her art and research focused on creation mythologies and birthing stories of Khmer women.
The work in the show belongs to the Gallery X series: a participatory project, comprised of digital portraits and a site-specific installation that engages “everyday” communities in art-making and art-viewing. Specifically, the project continues Studio Revolt’s interest in creating narratives of Cambodians by Cambodians beyond war and poverty. Gallery X is a series of public portraits capturing people caught in a moment between heaven and earth—an exhilarating moment of joy. These “jumpshot” portraits became a way to spread joy amongst artists, participants, and viewers.
Ombretta Agrò Andruff is a New York City and Miami-based freelance curator, art critic and consultant. Born in Turin, Italy, in 1971 she graduated from the University of Art and Literature in Siena, Italy, in 1995 and holds a post-graduate degree in International Cultural Management from the ICCM in Salzburg, Austria, and Fitzcarraldo Foundation in Turin, Italy.
Since her move to the USA in 1998 she has curated solo and group shows in Europe, the USA, and India, collaborating with museums, art festivals, commercial galleries and art fairs. She has written essays for several books and catalogues. Since 2005 she has been a consultant to the Italian Cultural Institute in New York City and the Italian Ministry of Cultural Affairs. From 2007 to 2012 she consulted the Religare Arts Initiative, a New Delhi-based art organization, as their International Art Advisor.
SHELLY JYOTI
NEWS LETTER |SALT: THE GREAT MARCH
Re-Contextualising the contemporary Azrakh traditions in contemporary Art and Craft
September 28-October 20, 2013
Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts , New Delhi, India
Shelly Jyoti Salt: The Great March’ Site specific installation ‘Solidarity’-90 Azrakh textile buttons,108×108 Inches 2013
Overview:
“I learnt from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus, the very right to live accrues to us only when we do the duty of citizenship of the world. From this one fundamental statement, perhaps it is easy enough to define the duties of Man and of Woman and correlate every right to some corresponding duty to be first performed” –Mahatma Gandhi wrote to Julian Huxley, Director General, UNESCO (May 1947)
Exploring salt as a symbol of non-violence and investigating the sarvodaya theory in the practice of nonviolence, tolerance, peace and harmony through the narratives of swadeshi politics, these works draw upon the history of India’s colonial past and Mahatma Gandhi’s 1930 Dandi March, which began the Salt Satyagraha and became an important part of the Indian independence movement. In her new series, ‘Salt: The Great march 2013’, artist Shelly Jyoti explores the possibilities of establishing alternative societies where Gandhian ideals of ‘swadharma’ and ‘sarvodaya’ could be adhered to and sustained with sincere implementation. In a society where patriarchal values threaten the free existence of women, the artist feels that re-introducing Gandhian ideals with critical changes would function as a correctional force.
This new complementary body of works are complementary are continuation of Jyoti’s earlier series, ‘INDIGO Neel Darpan’. Neel Darpan (1860) is a literary text, symbolic of yet another anti-colonial, nonviolence movement that took place in 1917-18 as ‘champaran’ movement for indigo farmers in India. Shelly Jyoti’s new works feature a large khadi fabric with Sanskrit calligraphic print as a site specific installation, two sculptural installations of khadi yarn (aatis) and pipe cleaners, twenty five contemporary artworks with azrakh dyeing/ printing incorporating needle work on khadi fabric and multimedia spoken poetry.E Catalog: – http://issuu.com/shellyjyoti/docs/brochure_1-64 -IGNCA Publication
Press Release: https://shellyjyoti.com/salt-the-great-march-2013/press-release/
Artist Statement :https://shellyjyoti.com/salt-the-great-march-2013/artist-statement/
Gallery of Works: https://shellyjyoti.com/salt-the-great-march-2013/gallery/
Catalog essay by Johny ML: https://shellyjyoti.com/salt-the-great-march-2013/catalogue-essay/
Gallery Installations site specific: https://shellyjyoti.com/salt-the-great-march-2013/art-installations/
Multimedia Spoken poetry: https://shellyjyoti.com/salt-the-great-march-2013/multimedia-spoken-poetry/
Catalog Essay: https://shellyjyoti.com/saltthe-great-march-2013/multimedia-spoken-salt-the-great-march/
Press & Media Reports: https://shellyjyoti.com/press/
Video Documentation: by Syed Jawed Aghsar:https://shellyjyoti.com/salt-the-great-march-2013/youtube-video/
Opening Reception:Chief guest Karan Singh, MP, President of ICCR :https://shellyjyoti.com/salt-the-great-march-2013/installations-opening/
Lecture & Talks:
October 9, 2013, 11.30-2.30 pm-Lecture Hall, IGNCA New Delhi
Re-Building: A Sense of Nationalism by Shelly jyoti
Walking the Gandhi Way- by Johny ML
Shelly Jyoti B 43 Trinity Towers, DLF Phase 5, Gurgaon 122002, Haryana.
Cell 91 958225062 Home 0124 4000154 E: shelly@shellyjyoti.com
Salt: The Great March
Recent works on khadi with Azrakh printing & dyeing traditions by Shelly Jyoti
Works on view until October 20, 2013
Exhibition Hall , 11 Mansingh Road,
Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts
New Delhi 122001
Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts publishes the catalog SALT: THE GREAT MARCH
view Catalog http://issuu.com/shellyjyoti/docs/brochure_1-64
SALT: THE GREAT MARCH
Re-Contextualizing Azrakh Traditions in Contemporary Art and Craft
by Shelly Jyoti
September 28 –October 20, 2013
Exhibition Hall, 11 Man Singh Road
Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts New Delhi, India 110000
Lectures:
Wednesday, October 9,20 13
13 ,11.00—1.30pm
Lecture hall,Indira Gandhi National
Centre of the Arts
‘Walking the Gandhi way’ by Johny ML- Curator, Critic ,Writer
‘Rebuilding: A Sense of Nationalism
’ by An Artist talk by Shelly Jyoti
Inauguration by Dr Karan Singh
Member Parliament, President Indian Council of Cultural Relations
Saturday, September 28, 2013, 5.30pm