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Lot 597
SHEBA CHHACHHI (B. 1958)
Winged Pilgrims (Robes) # 1
Closed21 March 2012
Price Realised
USD 15,000
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Sheba Chhachhi's work has been widely exhibited and she has participated in several international biennales, including Moscow, Singapore and Havana, and the Fukuoka Asian Triennial.
Originally created for the Singapore Biennale in 2006, these works from the Winged Pilgrims: A Chronicle from Asia series incorporate various iconographies, such as birds, urban cityscapes and the robes of Buddhist pilgrims whose interplay conveys the history of migration. The layered images in the lightboxes move so that the viewer feels as if they are watching a mobile landscape. By bridging shared ancient philosophies and histories from Asia, with particular reference to India and China, with our contemporary experience living in a media-infiltrated society, Chhachhi comments on the movements that produce and define the reality of globalization.
Originally created for the Singapore Biennale in 2006, these works from the Winged Pilgrims: A Chronicle from Asia series incorporate various iconographies, such as birds, urban cityscapes and the robes of Buddhist pilgrims whose interplay conveys the history of migration. The layered images in the lightboxes move so that the viewer feels as if they are watching a mobile landscape. By bridging shared ancient philosophies and histories from Asia, with particular reference to India and China, with our contemporary experience living in a media-infiltrated society, Chhachhi comments on the movements that produce and define the reality of globalization.