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Artists
Chinmoyi Patel
Kashif Nadim Chaudry
Harminder Singh Judge
Hetain Patel
Samit Das
Airspace Gallery, 4 Broad Street, Hanley, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, ST1 4HL


\”home\” is a group exhibition looking into how, when set in a comparable context with artists from South Asia, British artists of South Asian descent view their own origin and literal physical sense of location, alongside more figurative investigations and manifestations of the self and identity, locality and vicinity, foreign and foreignness, home and origin.
 
The exhibition will display established artists together with recent graduates at the beginning of their creative careers, including Hetain Patel, Harminder Singh Judge, Samit Das, Kashif Nadim Chaudry and Chinmoyi Patel. Presenting the growing and changing face of South Asia, the show examines the cross-cultural international relationships through visual interpretations. The artists are trying to make sense of their past, history and origin, whilst negotiating and comprehending the contemporary changes to South Asian society. Simultaneously, Rachel Marsden, the curator, attempts to bring the artworks out of their usual frameworks to be reconfigured, renegotiated and reassessed in a new context, providing appropriate socio-historic interpretations through which the public and viewer can understand an unknown and often unseen narrative.
 
The progressive urbanization and globalization of India and Pakistan, its relationship to the West and the distance of the artwork and artist from its “home-country”, or origin, has presented a whole new set of questions. How is South Asian contemporary art interpreted, exhibited and understood when it is moved from its origin to the West, specifically the UK? How do South Asian and British artists of South Asian descent view and interpret their own origin? What happens to the notion of the “self”? By looking at artists in relation to the global context of South Asia, \”home\” aims to create international cross-cultural dialogues between local and regional diverse and dynamic communities in North Staffordshire and the West Midlands.
 

SÃO PAULO BIENNIAL

Michael Stubbs will participate in the São Paulo Biennial in September 2010.

FAST FORWARD: Contemporary British Art in Brazil is an exhibition which presents the work of British artists who have already been celebrated in Brazil, their work having previously been seen in either the Biennale de São Paulo, in solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries in Brazil or in private collections.

The artists are: David Batchelor , Michael Craig-Martin, Tony Cragg, Ian Davenport, Tracey Emin, Richard Galpin, Anthony Gormley, Gerard Hemsworth, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Anish Kapoor, Julian Opie, Grayson Perry, Marc Quinn, Michael Stubbs, Mark Wallinger, Rachel Whiteread.

This exhibition will be one of the official events of the Biennial of São Paulo and will take place at Centro Brasileiro Britânico, sponsored by Cultura Inglesa and supported by the British Council in Brazil.

www.cbb.org.br
20th September to 31st  December 2010