Minutes of the Meeting | Garima Gupta Solo| Art Night Thursday Clark House Bombay
Minutes of the meeting is a documentation of my travels from Jakarta to
New Guinea, looking at Birds of Paradise as more than just an exotic
curio that adorned the Cabinets of Curiosities across Europe. The
drawings and short films trace the ebb and flow of ecological
destruction surrounding the species in the South-East Asian and Western
Pacific region. Starting from the min 16th-century trade of exotic
fauna, to being the epicentre of Dutch colonial rule in the 18th
century, to today’s palm oil crisis - the birds and animals of the
region have been major players in world history. Their unwitting
entanglement ranged from their contribution to the spirit of scientific
inquiry, right upto today’s insatiable need for food products processed
with palm oil. This fascinating and tragic entanglement, often
underrepresented, is the story I am sharing from 09th Feb - 08th March
2017 at Clark House Initiative. Do come! Opening on 09/02 at 6Minutes of the Meeting | Garima Gupta |Solo| Art Night Thursday:30 pm Walkthroughs on 12/02, 19/02, 26/02 at 5:30 pm and closing on 08/03 at 7:30 pm |