Alwar Balasubramaniam
Upcoming New Delhi
PARAMJIT SINGH
January 7 - March 4, 2023 New York
The Tomb of Begum Hazrat Mahal
November 3 - April 30, 2023 @ Institute of Arab & Islamic Art (IAIA) New York
November 3, 2022 - April 30, 2023 The inaugural exhibition at the IAIA’s new location marks Indian artist Rummana Hussain’s first institutional solo presentation in the US with The Tomb of Begum Hazrat Mahal (1997). An expansive installation in which Rummana questions the representation of the minorities and of histories by trying to retrieve marginalized narratives of national and communal identities, focusing on the status of women while excavating the rhetoric of “other” in nationalist and religious institutions.
On view
We are delighted to announce The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s acquisition of Alwar Balasubramaniam’s Body as Shell for their Permanent Collection. The work is on view in The Blanche and A.L. Levine Court for Modern and Contemporary Art as part of Knowledge of the Past Is the Key to the Future, an installation of works from The MET collection.
Through April 30, 2023 Rummana Hussain (1952-1999), one of India’s pioneer conceptual and performance artists, was born a secular Muslim into a well-placed political family in Bangalore. She began her career as a painter but her burgeoning political activism prompted her to expand her formal range. Feminism was a shaping force. So was the explosion of anti-Muslim violence by Hindu nationalists in 1992. Together they pushed her to make work that spun from her identity as a member of two embattled minorities.
