Sheela Gowda
Artist, b. 1957, Bhadravati, India. Lives and works in Bangalore, India

Sheela Gowda trained as a painter during the mid-1980s, at the Royal College of Arts in London and the Cité International des Arts in Paris. These European references, together with an awareness of the Indian socio-cultural situation, resulted in a series of oil paintings dealing with the bodily and emotional immersion of people in their surroundings. At the beginning of the 1990s Gowda started using unconventional and often unusual materials, through which she expressed the angst and melancholy caused by local socio-political tensions. Her labour-intensive installations show an attempt to preserve the integrity of her materials and at the same time the will to contend with their peculiar resistances. In her own words, Gowda seeks a 'specificity within abstraction' that avoids strident statements and instead reveals meaning through suggestion.

Sheela Gowda's work has been included in documenta 12 , Kassel, 2007; 'Fare Mondi//Making Worlds…', the 53rd Venice Biennale, 2009; 'Indian Highway' at The Serpentine Gallery, London and Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway, 2009; the 2009

Sheela Gowda

torsdag 24. sep. kl. 13:00 – 15:00

Akademiet Forelesningssalen 4.etg

Arr: Teori
Språk: English