Aaditi Joshi b. 1980
Untitled, 2018
Fused Plastic Bags, Acrylic Colour and Wood
(HSN Code: 970300)
(HSN Code: 970300)
216 x 48 inches
Copyright Aaditi Joshi 2018
Aaditi Joshi's strikingly minimal, yet powerful works speak about the materiality, degradation and repurposing aspects of man-made materials and their effect on the environment and reflects how nature is reacting...
Aaditi Joshi's strikingly minimal, yet powerful works speak about the materiality, degradation and repurposing aspects of man-made materials and their effect on the environment and reflects how nature is reacting or healing from the impact human existence has caused it. By abstracting this everyday material, Aaditi coaxes viewers to think again about their own patterns of consumption, which have now come to an abrupt halt.
In her essay, 'WasteLand', Birgid Uccia says of Aaditi's work, 'Aaditi Joshi has created a site-specific sculpture of intriguing visual quality. Referencing her installation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, she considers the architectural space, and the physical and perceptual experience of the viewer. The artist applies heat to manipulate the texture and shape of plastic bags she reuses from her earlier works. These works are created with small, biomorphic clusters of bags, painted in various colors. Plastic bags, ubiquitous in the city of Mumbai and discarded in alarming quantities, are explored in their dual function as an ‘object of trash’ and an ‘object of beauty’
In her essay, 'WasteLand', Birgid Uccia says of Aaditi's work, 'Aaditi Joshi has created a site-specific sculpture of intriguing visual quality. Referencing her installation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, she considers the architectural space, and the physical and perceptual experience of the viewer. The artist applies heat to manipulate the texture and shape of plastic bags she reuses from her earlier works. These works are created with small, biomorphic clusters of bags, painted in various colors. Plastic bags, ubiquitous in the city of Mumbai and discarded in alarming quantities, are explored in their dual function as an ‘object of trash’ and an ‘object of beauty’
Exhibitions
Wasteland | Curated by Birgid Uccia, TARQ, Mumbai, 2018Literature
1. August Hakara, Review Wasteland at TARQ Galleryhttp://www.hakara.in/nikhil-purohit/
2. Vogue, July 23, 2018, This exhibition sees waste through a different lens
https://www.vogue.in/content/this-new-exhibition-sees-waste-through-a-different-lens
3. The Hindu, July 20, 2018, Walking into a mirage
https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/art/fragility-of-garbage/article24475945.ece
4. Indian Express, Reused and Reborn
https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/waste-disposal-exhibition-reused-and-reborn-5252553/
5. Sunday Guardian,
https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/art/artists-found-inspiration-urban-dust-heaps-human-wastelands
6. Mid-day, 10th June 2018, Consulate General of Switzerland organises Waste Land exhibition in Mumbai
https://www.mid-day.com/articles/consulate-general-of-switzerland-organises-waste-land-exhibition-in-mumbai/19504166
7. SaffronArt Newsletter, July 2018, Around the world
http://www.tarq.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2018-July-Saffronart-Newsletter.pdf
8.Aaditi Joshi_ ‘I want to be closer to plastic and express its beautiful side’ by Skye Thomas, September 6, 2018
http://www.tarq.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Aaditi-Joshi_-‘I-want-to-be-closer-to-plastic-and-express-its-beautiful-side’-by-Skye-Thomas.pdf
9. Hakara, Wasteland: Expulsion of today into yesterday and tomorrow, Aug1 2018
https://www.tarq.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/August-Hakara.pdf
Publications
New Works by Aaditi Joshi Exhibition Catalogue, Essay written by Birgid Uccia, TARQ, 20191
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