From October 29th
to March 5th, 2023
Fondazione Elpis, via Lamarmora 26, Milano
Monday - Wednesday
closed
Thursday - Sunday
from 12.00 am to 7.00 pm
Condividi
A cura di
HH Art Space
HAZE - Contemporary Art From South Asia
From October 29th
to March 5th, 2023
Fondazione Elpis, via Lamarmora 26, Milano
Monday - Wednesday
closed
Thursday - Sunday
from 12.00 am to 7.00 pm
Condividi
A cura di
HH Art Space

Through the works of 21 South Asian artists, HAZE explores new perspectives of ecological, political and socio-cultural narratives of a global crisis that affects the region, the people and their stories. The exhibition, curated by HH Art Spaces collective and Mario D’Souza, is hosted in Fondazione Elpis’ new spaces.

HAZE in its form and density presents us with a reality we must consider and is a reminder of our collective past and possible future. Mist can be fog, smog, smoke, toxicity and magic: it swallows up distance to remind us of the fragility of the present. The exhibition ties together 20 South Asian practices by following stories and legends, reuniting spirits and energies in a time marked by extremisms and majoritarianisms. HAZE doesn’t prevent us from looking at the future, instead it offers us with an acute awareness of the present, the likes of which has become a form of resistance.

Virtual tour

Bani Abidi
Nikhil Chopra
Madhu Das
Kedar Dhondu
Pranay Dutta
Avian D’Souza
Madhavi Gore
Shivani Gupta
Munir Kabani
Romain Loustau
Sahil Naik
Yasmin Jahan Nupur
Soumitrimayee Paital
Amol Patil
Pala Pothupitiye
Fazal Rizvi
Joydeb Roaja
Lala Rukh
Vineha Sharma
Divyesh Undaviya
Diptej Vernekar
Bani Abidi

Bani Abidi's work (1971, Karachi, Pakistan) takes the form of an inventory, or alphabet in images, of the security barriers imported and deployed in Karachi, Pakistan's main city, in the aftermath of the attack on the Twin Towers. Interested in investigating the power dynamics of her home country, where the myth of the "American dream" is still alive, Bani Abidi studies the barriers, photographs them on site, and works on them digitally afterwards. The artist also decides to modify some of them, opening possible gaps that would allow pedestrian passage, thus failing their security function. Such a sarcastic and ironic approach alludes to the distortion that the American dream undergoes in Karachi, turning almost into a parody. Depotentiated and decontextualized on white backgrounds, the security barriers are finally presented as pieces of furniture to be chosen, as if they were on the pages of a glossy catalog.

photo by Shivani Gupta
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BANI ABIDI
Security Barriers, 2008-2019
Inkjet print on dibond
28 x 44 cm (each)


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BANI ABIDI
Security Barriers, 2008-2019
Inkjet print on dibond
28 x 44 cm (each)


BANI ABIDI
Security Barriers, 2008-2019
Inkjet print on dibond
28 x 44 cm (each)