Sheela Gowda
[edit] Born in 1957, Sheela Gowda trained as a painter at the Royal College of Art in London, but in1992 abandoned conventional forms of painting and turned to sculpture and installation. She also made a dramatic shift in her choice of materials, incorporating substances and processes from traditional Indian culture which had sacred as well as domestic implications. Consciously blurring the line between fine art and craft, and between creative, political, and domestic spaces, she questions the role of female subjectivity in the often volatile mix of religion, nationalism, and violence in contemporary Indian society. Gowda has had several solo shows since the late 1980s and selected group exhibitions include : How Latitudes Become Forms ,Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, 2003); Traditions/Tensions: Contemporary Art in Asia (Asia Society, New York, 1996). The artist currently lives and works in Bangalore, India.Née en 1957, Sheela Gowda a commencé une pratique de peintre au Royal College of Art de Londres, mais en 1992 elle abandonne les formes convetionnelles de la peinture pour se tourner vers la sculpture et l’installation. Elle utilize des matériaux, substances et procédés issus de la culture indienne traditionnelle, dans sa dimension sacrée comme dans ses implications domestiques. Brouillant délibérément la limite entre art et artisanat, et entre les espaces créatifs, politiques et domestiques, elle met en question le rôle de la subjectivité feminine dans le mélange de religion, de nationalisme et de violence qui constitue la société indienne contemporaine. De nombreuses expositions ont été consacrées depuis les années 80 à Sheela Gowda, et elle a participé à de nombreuses expositions de groupe comme : How Latitudes Become Forms ,Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, 2003); Traditions/Tensions: Contemporary Art in Asia (Asia Society, New York, 1996). Elle vit et travaille à Bangalore (Inde).
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