I loved this image taken from the Indian Highway Exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, London. It's The Nemesis of Nations by Bharti Kher, one of the many artworks from Indian artists on display.
Née en 1969 à Londres, Bharti Kher vit à New Delhi depuis les années 1990. Tout comme son mari, Subodh Gupta, elle fait partie de la génération montante des artistes indiens qui mènent aujourd'hui une carrière internationale. Bharti conçoit de spectaculaires environnements d'esprit surréaliste ou fantastique, peuplés de figures hybrides. Séduisantes au premier abord, ces créatures, allégories de la violence ou de la mort, sont en réalité cruelles ou effrayantes, révélant le malaise et le chaos de l'époque.
Born in 1969 in London. Lives and works in New Delhi.
Bharti Kher’s work collects a wide range of images culled from her daily life and surroundings, and
traces the contours of her urban and immigrant experience. The artist questions our notions of race,
identity and origin, and addresses a number of issues such as class, consumerism and feminism, as
well as the relationships between tradition and contemporaneity. Kher is also known for her resin-cast
animals, life-size sculptures of deer, elephants and hyenas, often covered in bindi, the tiny decoration
applied in India to women’s foreheads.
You can see more of her work here
and find out more about the exhibition here
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