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SCAPELANDS
'Fluidly combining the phases of expedition, research, documentation and meditation in 'Scapelands', Sonia moves outward into diverse terrains of the natural world and simultaneously inward into the history of artistic practice, renewing landscape as a genre. Her project title is instructive: she inverts the two elements of the genre appellation, ‘landscape’, generating a semantic shift. ‘Landscape’ announces itself as artifice, for it does not exist in nature; it is the artistic imagination’s proposal of a particular way of representing or symbolizing the natural world, of transforming nature into subject. Its mirror twin, ‘Scapeland’, turns this relationship between subject and artifice around, making the ‘-scape’ the focus of inquiry, engaging with the internalized aesthetic concepts and art-historical categories that form an integral part of our lifeworld. The resulting findings constitute a territory that belongs equally to the cartographer and the psychonaut, at once geographic and oneiric.’ RANJIT HOSKOTE WE ARE DELIGHTED TO INVITE YOU FOR A PRIVATE PREVIEW AND CLOSING RECEPTION OF SCAPELANDS BY SONIA MEHRA CHAWLA IN THE PRESENCE OF MR RICHARD ALFORD SECRETARY CHARLES WALLACE INDIA TRUST AND MR VIVEK MANSUKHANI DIRECTOR ARTS BRITISH COUNCIL INDIA On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 5.30- 7.30 pm at EXHIBIT 320, New Delhi ARTIST LED WALK THROUGH WILL COMMENCE AT 6PM FOLLOWED BY A CONVERSATION WITH MR RICHARD ALFORD SCAPELANDS IS SUPPORTED BY BRITISH COUNCIL INDIA & CHARLES WALLACE INDIA TRUST UK |
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