Past Exhibits
Reclaiming the Circle: Creative Exploration in Grey
Ina Kaur: January 6 - February 14, 2009
Artists Reception January 16th 6pm-10pm
Our identities are defined and influenced by our history, society and the culture of our immediate surroundings. We stand at a crossroad where nationalities and localities intersect. In this global cultural environment where identities and boundaries converge, one seeks to identify oneself. As an Indian woman living in a post-colonial, post-modern global environment, I explore a continuum of cross-cultural negotiation. My identity is an assimilation of varying influences from past and present, from both East and West.
From my multi-cultural experiences, I integrate elements of different cultures in my visual imagery. I incorporate symbols and motifs that reference elements of the Occidental and Oriental.
Solo exhibition “reclaiming the circle: creative exploration in grey, represents my new body of work which investigate the synthesis between these binary oppositions such as, east - west, local - global, ancient - modern, oriental - occidental and how they coexist to encode my work. I am interested in unification of these oppositions allowing for the development of a new hybrid language and a reclaimed space. This “new” space is an in-between space, where these oppositions unite and fuse together; it is also know as a grey area.