Transboundary – Exposing the Porosity of the Concept of National
Borders Reena Saini Kallat’s practice evolves around the tension
between the concept of barriers in a world fundamentally shaped by
mobility and interaction. Exploring the divisive narratives around
national and geopolitical borders and their impact on identity and
self-image for people and their immediate environment, she is also
concerned with social and psychological barriers. That barriers
give way, and can be subverted, is an idea that is pronounced in
Kallat’s work using electric cables twisted to resemble barbed
wire. She uses the paradox of the existence of technology for free
flow of information and restriction on movement. In order to expose
the ambiguity of national narratives, the figure of the hybrid has
come to hold symbolic potential in her practice, as a truant
against dividing lines: Kallat creates hybrids of animals and
plants that are strongly associated with national identity, only to
show that nature defies the violent cleaving through land and
nature, and uses the motif of the river, which is often both,
border and lifeline to both sides. Kallat’s work reveals the idea
of isolation as an illusion, and instead suggests to embrace a
pluralism of cultures.
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