SELECTED WORKS BY Yamini Nayar
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Yamini Nayar
Underfoot And Overhead
2008
C-print
76 x 102 cm |
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Yamini Nayar
Being There
2006
C-print
51 x 61 cm |
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Yamini Nayar
Sincere
2006
C-print
51 x 61 cm |
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Yamini Nayar
What Is Essential
2006
C-print
51 x 61 cm |
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Yamini Nayar
Luck Is The Residue Of Design
2007
C-print
51 x 61 cm |
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Yamini Nayar
Cleo
2009
C-print
76.3 x 101.5 cm |
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Yamini Nayar
Study 1
2008
C-print (architectural drawing on photograph)
26.5 x 34.3 cm |
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Yamini Nayar
Study 2
2008
C-print (architectural drawing on photograph)
26.5 x 34.3 cm |
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ARTIST INFORMATION
ARTICLES
South Asian American Art Now
By Kiran Chandra
Picasso painted Le Demoiselle d Avignon after seeing an exhibit of African Masks and sculptures at the MOMA. Paul Gauguin's life's works come from Tahiti, where he retreated to after his giving up his profession as a stockbroker. Cultures outside their own have often inspired artists to push the boundaries of their work.
It is equally engaging see a culture that is known and familiar (by heritage, or place of birth) to artists, re-interpreted, contended with, and assimilated into new contexts. Nostalgia, yearnings for that elusive place called home and the immigrant experience in itself becomes the basis for their art.
This is the nerve that the curators at the Queens Museum have touched with their phenomenal exhibition called "Fatal Love- South Asian American Art Now." The exhibition follows "Crossing the lines" (also featured at the Queens Museum) in 2001, in which artists were asked to create pieces that focused on their particular communities. The museum takes its responsibility to represent the ethnically diverse community that inhabits New York seriously. It makes a fitting venue, therefore, for "Fatal Love," which is dedicated solely to the creative and cultural engagements of first and second generation American artists of South-Asian descent.
The "Fatal Love" exhibit has been installed in conjunction with the Asia Society's "Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India." "Fatal Love", stands with and apart from its Indian counterpart at the Asia Society. It speaks directly to the question of what it is to be a part of a diaspora. In particular, the diaspora's reaction to 9/11 and the treatment of immigrants in New York is raw and deeply felt. felt A mult- media installation by Naeem Mohaiemen and Ibrahim Quarishi called "Disappeared in America" documents the ugly and often brutal repercussions of 9/11 on Muslims through a series of banners, stickers, video pieces and sound bites. Specifically, it speaks to the victims whose absences went almost unnoticed- taxi drivers, small business owners - the very immigrants struggling the most to build a life in America.
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Source: egothemag.com
Yamini nayar - intimate theater: a soliloquy of dislocations
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Source: Wynwood, The Art Magazine, April 2009
sheela gowda & yamini nayar - new york times
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Source: The New York Times, May 8th 2009
yamini nayar - the new yorker
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Source: The New Yorker, May 4th 2009
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