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Untitled, Djemma el-Fna, Marrakech
(March 2, 2012)
5K HMI light in helium-inflated 3.8m vinyl cube
Photo: R.V. Wiensowski
Karthik Pandian’s practice seeks to unsettle the contradictions
at the heart of the monument. The universal and contingent, sacred
and profane, proximate and distant confront one another in his work.
Concerned in particular with the way in which history lurks in matter,
Pandian often uses 16mm film to excavate sites for fragments of political
intensity. The sculptural works that support, enshroud and sometimes
obscure his film projections are produced from materials drawn from his
research and often assume the form of architectural constructions. Through
moving image, sculpture and syntheses of the two, his work imagines
freedom in relation to the impositions of architecture. |
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Untitled, Djemma el-Fna, Marrakech
(March 2, 2012)
5K HMI light in helium-inflated 3.8m vinyl cube
Photo: R.V. Wiensowski
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Cahokia Byōbu (Broken Screen)
2011
Installation view
White Flag Projects, St. Louis
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Cahokia Byōbu (Broken Screen)
2011
Installation view
White Flag Projects, St. Louis |
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Cahokia Byōbu (Broken Screen)
2011
Installation view w/ Sound and Light Show
White Flag Projects, St. Louis |
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Cahokia Byōbu (Broken Screen)
2011
Installation view
White Flag Projects, St. Louis |
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Cahokia Byōbu (Broken Screen)
2011
Installation view
White Flag Projects, St. Louis |
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Cahokia Byōbu (Broken Screen)
2011
Installation view
White Flag Projects, St. Louis |
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Before the Sun
2010
Installation view
Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis |
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Before the Sun
2010
Installation view
Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis |
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Before the Sun
2010
Installation view
Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis |
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Unearth
2010
Installation view
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Unearth
2010
Installation view
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Unearth
2010
Detail
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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