Amar Kanwar
25 Jun - 16 Oct 2016
AMAR KANWAR
25 June - 16 October 2016
During the summer of 2016, the Frac is holding an exhibition of Amar Kanwar, the famous Indian artist.
For more than ten years, Amar Kanwar’s movies have tackled the political, economic and cultural aspects of the contemporary indian society.
Based in New Delhi, the artist uses a complex and sophisticated cinematographic vocabulary to narrate individual and collective experiences. The poetic and committed movies of Amar Kanwar combine memory, literature, and history in order to denounce the social injustice and create at once an activist and contemplative space.
For this exhibition, the Frac presents, for the first time in France, a major work of Amar Kanwar, The Torn First Pages, a video installation projecting the spectator in the maze of the dictatorship in Myanmar. A tribute to the civil resistance, the installation, composed of 19 movies, constitutes a judiciary poetic journey entwining elliptically and metaphorically the activist’s path fighting for democracy. Beyond the social and political observation, Amar Kanwar narrates traumatic memories in order to overcome them.
25 June - 16 October 2016
During the summer of 2016, the Frac is holding an exhibition of Amar Kanwar, the famous Indian artist.
For more than ten years, Amar Kanwar’s movies have tackled the political, economic and cultural aspects of the contemporary indian society.
Based in New Delhi, the artist uses a complex and sophisticated cinematographic vocabulary to narrate individual and collective experiences. The poetic and committed movies of Amar Kanwar combine memory, literature, and history in order to denounce the social injustice and create at once an activist and contemplative space.
For this exhibition, the Frac presents, for the first time in France, a major work of Amar Kanwar, The Torn First Pages, a video installation projecting the spectator in the maze of the dictatorship in Myanmar. A tribute to the civil resistance, the installation, composed of 19 movies, constitutes a judiciary poetic journey entwining elliptically and metaphorically the activist’s path fighting for democracy. Beyond the social and political observation, Amar Kanwar narrates traumatic memories in order to overcome them.