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Bharati
Kapadia is an artist living and working in Mumbai, India. She was
invited to participate in the Residency Program at apex as a result
of a invitation to Amy Sillman to select a Resident. Delving into
a ground fertilized by the personal and the private, my work positions
itself on the threshold edge between fact and fiction, between the
'existent' and the 'non-existent.' As opposed to a sitting-on-the-fence
position, which commits to neither, my work identifies and negotiates
the space located midway between two extremes. In the works made
on nylon fabric, the sheer expanse of the taut fabric acts as the
memory-screen, which receives and projects lived moments: the trials
and travails of the tenderness of bonding and the harshness of rejection,
of decay and dying, germination and rebirth. The corporeal bodies
of the paper works seem to deny their materiality when lit from
behind. They reveal an emotionally charged inner landscape, which
fades no sooner the light from behind them is withdrawn. They retreat
into their shell, leaving only their outer shapes and textures before
the gaze of the spectator.
Bharati Kapadia 23 June 2001
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