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United States
Photography, water on Glass
Size: 150 W x 12 H x 120 D in
This project was acquired by the American Swedish Institute in 2014. Please contact me for prints of the installation. This is a durational site-specific installation comprised of glass vessels arranged to form the phrase "Empty Time." The vessels have been hand-blown and are inspired from American Swedish Institute's glass collections. The vessels are filled with colored water to varying levels, and the color saturation of the water is in a gradient. The water is allowed to evaporate over the duration of the installation. The audience is encouraged to interact with the work by lightly touching the vessels with small bamboo or reed sticks, thus creating sounds, and animating the work as well as the space in which it is installed. A writer friend once talked about the time that she spends alone writing or not writing, but thinking about her writing, as empty time. As an artist, I can well identify with that state of mind. To me, the phrase Empty Time, is a fragment of a sentence that suggests solitude, even loneliness, and a fugitive feeling about “filling” the time in which one is alone. In terms of material significance, the fragility of glass is especially appropriate to physically manifest the tenuous premise of Empty Time. The liquid in the bowls metaphorically “fills” the time, but also evaporates, thus alluding to the ebb and flow of being “empty” and “filled”. Similarly, the echoes of the sounds produced from the bowls “fill” the empty space momentarily and then return it to silence. The Empty Time work will be a playful, interactive, and experiential installation that will inspire multiple meaning-making possibilities in the viewers. Empty Time is a continuation in a series of sculptural poems, which are an exercise in paring down to the essentials, to the core, and an attempt at finding the “more in less.” Also suggesting the fractured nature of language, these words are broken or interrupted at seemingly random but very intentional points. Please visit https://www.pritikachowdhry.com/empty-time for more images of this work.
Photography:water on Glass
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:150 W x 12 H x 120 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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I explore cultural forms of memory and representations of historical trauma. Transnational in scope, my current work is informed by border-related violence that have occurred in different parts of the world. I seek to connect seemingly disparate geopolitical contexts, because I believe that it is important to bring bridges into being even when it seems untenable to do so. Collective memory of communities and nations provides the viscera with which I build these bridges in my work. Installed in experiential environments, these large-scale sculptures and site-sensitive installations reference the body and function as mobile and temporary memorials. I think of my works as “memory sculptures”, an eloquent term coined by cultural scholar, Andreas Huyssen. As an interdisciplinary artist, I migrate between fibers, paper, clay, paint, drawing, and photography. My studio practice is informed equally by material sensibilities as well as current cultural discourses of diaspora and migration, post-colonial theory, and feminist and queer theory. This eclecticism anchors my art practice and my understanding of the worlds I inhabit.
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