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| Samar Jodha’s OUTPOST Art Exhibition |
Report by Santanu Ganguly: The Italian Cultural Center presents Samar Singh Jodha’s OUTPOST- Black & White Fine Art Photography Exhibition in New Delhi, which is open till February 28, 2014.
Samar would be happy to share insights about the exhibition, enthusiasm towards presenting key installation from Venice Biennale and going forward bringing the entire 1& 1/2 ton show from Venice later this year.
Please find attached Samar’s key work and artist statement of Black & White Fine Art Photography Exhibition- OUTPOST.
Jodha's current project OUTPOST is a visual disquisition on spontaneous individual expression in a rapidly homogenizing global culture. Jodha deploys a pictorial trope of discarded containers fashioned into habitat by miners in India's pristine Northeast. Along with the B&W Fine Art Photography, the exhibition presents a "show stopper" installation that was featured recently at the prestigious platform of Venice Biennale 2013.
Jodha foregrounds his work with people given to excavating precious minerals from the earth’s womb to keep the engines of the same mass culture and industry running, adds poignant irony to his endeavour. Broken people represent the interplay of narratives, along with their robust expression, unraveling the threads of a global technopoly that promises a rosy future to many of us via rapid innovation, while simultaneously condemning many others to centuries-old regression.
In deploying photographic imagery as the foundation stone of this work, Jodha summons a visual discourse that is rooted in documentary practice, yet is scarcely mimetic of that art form.
Samar Singh Jodha is an artist who over the last twenty years has been using
photography and film to address various issues like development, human rights and conservation. His work has been showcased in galleries and museums in Mumbai, Delhi, Barcelona, Boston, Frankfurt, London, New York, Queensland and Washington DC.His 40foot installation Bhopal-A Silent Picture was showcased by Amnesty International at the 2012 London Olympics.
Jodha’s eight-year long project on ageing in India remains the single biggest social communication project in terms of outputs and outreach. Extracts of it were showcased at Whitechapel Gallery, London and Fotomuseum, Zurich in 2010.
OUTPOST is a visual disquisition on spontaneous individual expression in a rapidly homogenizing global culture. Jodha deploys a pictorial trope of discarded containers fashioned into habitat by miners in India's pristine northeast.
Artist Samar Singh Jodha’s latest enterprise is a visual disquisition on a global culture where individual aesthetic notions are framed by commercial interests, and homogenized to such a degree by mass media that spontaneous individual expressions often emerge as accidental bi-products of non-aesthetic pursuits.
He highlights this unusual state of affairs via a pictorial trope of discarded containers fashioned into habitat by miners in India’s pristine northeast. The fact that Jodha foregrounds his work with a people given to excavating precious minerals from the earth’s womb to keep the engines of the same mass culture and industry running, adds poignant irony to his endeavor. The interplay of narratives represented by a broken people and their robust expression unravels the threads of a global technopoly that promises a rosy future to many of us via rapid innovation, while simultaneously condemning many others to centuries-old regression.
In deploying photographic imagery as the foundation stone of this work, Jodha summons a visual discourse that is rooted in documentary practice, yet is scarcely mimetic of that art form. As a seasoned artist, he is all too aware of its diminished power in the post-modern era. There is therefore a double dispossession at play here. The sliver of optimism in this work is a notion that art-making is too precious a gift to be restricted only to the virtuoso.
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