𝐄𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐃𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬

This is part of our series of programs for E/Merge: Art of the Indian Diaspora.

Using very different materials, processes, forms, and strategies, artists Sarika Goulatia, Rit Premnath, and Kaveri Raina each considers and depicts dualities in their works.

Moderator Ambika Trasi will lead the artists in a discussion of their interpretations of the dualities of absence/presence, location/dislocation, growth/decay, hovering/being held through various means and entry points, from architecture, to abstraction, to language/poetry.Date: Sunday, April 10, 2022

Time: 𝟏𝟎:𝟑𝟎𝐚𝐦 - 𝟏𝟏:𝟒𝟓𝐚𝐦 𝐂𝐓
𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐳𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭.
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𝐒𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐤𝐚 𝐆𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐚 was born in India and earned a masters in textile design and development there. She has done residencies in rural India, England, Hong Kong and the United States. E/Merge features her installation “sometimes forgotten, sometimes remembered; the tribulations and afflictions never erased.”

𝐒𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐭𝐚 𝐑𝐢𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐡 is a Bangalore-born, Brooklyn-based artist, educator, and editor of Shifter Magazine.​​ His recent installations and videos have focused on how our occupation of space and endurance through time is shaped by systems of power and control.

𝐊𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢 𝐑𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚 is from New Delhi (India), she received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Kaveri Raina’s paintings are based on internal dialogues, with words that trigger a feeling or an experience.

𝐀𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐤𝐚 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐢, the panel moderator, is an artist, arts organizer, and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her multidisciplinary, research-based practice considers the coloniality of power within images and sites. She is interested in the roles that memory, language, and technology play in identity-making, community-building, and unlearning in the diaspora.

Due to limited availability please register early! Visit niam.org for artist bios, COVID safety protocols and other details.