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“This exhibition starts with the premises of break and repair. It’s something that I’ve been doing in my studio for many years. I break things to know them. And what I’m interested in is opening up material to discover and reveal something that is not apparent when something is whole.” — Bharti Kher
The British-Indian artist Bharti Kher (b. 1969, London) was recently featured in her first solo exhibition of sculptures and hybrid paintings in New York City in eight years, The Unexpected Freedom of Chaos at Perrotin New York. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the exhibition had to be closed early. In this exhibition trailer video from Perrotin, Kher discusses her studio practice, the new works in the exhibition, and her interest in the psychological meanings hidden within objects.
From Perrotin:
Kher brings a fresh display of a widely heterogenous practice to New York after a gap of 8 years. New York is no longer the same city when Bharti Kher showed here last. But as someone who believes that “change is the very nature of our bodies,” Kher is here to remind us that she is not the same artist either. In this latest encounter between artist and the city, the animal is still displaced but now morphed into an intentional absurdity. The bindi remains, in its rigorous ubiquity, but its surface no longer ensconced, comes to us instead as something broken, and fittingly then, as viewers will see in fluxes of time such as these – as something powerful. It comes as an unexpected freedom of chaos.
