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Group Show
Stargazing
Jun 22
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Jul 19, 2012
London

‘Stargazing’ is understood as the absorption in chimerical or impractical ideas as well as the act of watching the night sky. What is needed in either case is extended contemplation and a willingness to allow for magic. Making art requires a process of shaping daydreams into existence, as artworks appear to us fully formed in some instances, and have to be found through a process of deduction in others. The exhibition Stargazing at Rossi & Rossi presents Jaishri Abichandani, Nida Abidi, Anita Dube, ChitraGanesh and Mithu Sen—five Indian artists who approach their work with a sensual and subversive femininity akin to the energy of the dark goddess Kali. Their work carries a hint of black magic, a fearlessness that conjures visions of a mocking, restrained power with the potential to destroy the (assumptions of) creator and viewer alike. Stargazing is the final instalment in a trilogy of feminist exhibitions exploring themes in science fiction held at Rossi & Rossi.Extending the metaphor of ‘other’ as ‘alien’ is logical to examine the works of women artists who primarily reside in the diaspora. Prior exhibitions in this trilogy includeAnomalies: From Nature to the Future in 2009, which presented the work of thirteen emerging and establishedSouth Asian artists, and Shapeshifters and Aliens in 2010, which included four Iranian women.

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