Current Occurrences, a multimedia installation by IMA students Tara Kesavan and Indranil Choudhury is on view until August 13th at Locust Projects in Miami.
The exhibition opened to the public on July 23rd after a month-long residency at Locust Projects as part of their LAB MFA summer exhibition program.
Current Occurrences is a continuation of work that Tara and Indranil had developed in IMA class, Multi-Channel Video Installation and a follow up Collaborative Residency with IMA professor Andrew Demirjian
“The show uses objects that act as thresholds doors, grilles, screens – to create sites where indoor and outdoor, real and virtual, human and non-human collide. A floating door becomes a portal into a domestic space where spectral presences carry out curious routines. Ornate grilles take turns to hum, transmitting snatches of sounds from a disembodied choir. Fragments of brick lattices create openings for skittering creatures to wander and return.
Tara and Indranil draw from artistic practices that preserve the tactility and craft of classical forms while being open to the creative possibilities of new technology. These include Shigeko Kubota’s exploration of landscapes through a hybrid practice that complicates the categories of sculpture, readymades and video; Tabaimo’s site-specific video installations that confront viewers with surreal, animistic worlds through the visual idiom of Japanese woodblock prints; and Shahzia Sikander’s expansion of cultural boundaries within Indo-Persian painting.”
For more info: https://locustprojects.org/exhibitions/project-room/2022-lab-mfa.html
Exhibition photo featured on the Locust Projects site by Zachary Balber
