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Shaheen Merali's oeuvre extends from large-scale installations to
remapping colonial history through collages and batiks. Acutely
aware of how popular culture acts as a carrier of social prejudice
and invective, his work is exercised specifically by the racial and
racist content of popular culture. Whether it's his series of
life-size paper constructions of black celebrities or his use of
flowerpots and toys to represent people of colour, Merali explores
and questions the relationship between racist desire and disgust,
between consumer goods and art fetishes, between the sweet icing of
kitsch and brutal racist violence. Through his work, it becomes
clear that the most trivial objects of amusement carry an
inordinate wealth of history, knowledge and prejudice. "Blackpop"
covers the last decade of his work while referring to earlier work
of the 1980s, with an introduction by the artist, Dave Beech, and
essays by art historian Jean Fisher, film historian Adrian Rifkin,
and film-maker Hito Stereyl.
The Swami Vivekananda's speech to the World's Parliament of
Religions in Chicago in 1893 is the centerpiece of Indian artist
Jitish Kallat's new work, Public Notice 3. The installation went on
view at the Art Institute of Chicago on September 11, 2010, exactly
108 years after Vivekananda delivered his groundbreaking address
calling for an end to "bigotry and fanaticism." The text of the
speech appears on the risers of the Art Institute of Chicago's
Grand Staircase where it is illuminated in the five colors-red,
orange, yellow, blue, and green-designated by the United States
Homeland Security Advisory System to signify threat levels. This
companion book, which documents the installation, is the first
full-scale exploration of Kallat's work published by a North
American institution. Along with an interview with the artist,
essays contextualize Public Notice 3 within the space of the
installation and evaluate Kallat's oeuvre within an international
context. Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago Exhibition
Schedule: The Art Institute of Chicago (09/11/10-09/11/11)
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