Border Lines

Last month, Chemould PrescottRoad presented a solo exhibition of internationally-acclaimed Mumbai-based artist Reena Saini Kallat, titled Blind Spots.

- Maria Louis

Following her solo exhibition at the Manchester Museum, and a series of exhibitions internationally at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) New York, Art Gallery of New South Wales, and Havana Biennale, this solo exhibition of Kallat’s work was held in Mumbai after a gap of four years.

Kallat’s practice spans drawing, photography, sculpture and video, engaging diverse materials imbued with conceptual underpinnings, questioning ideas of borders, geography, landscape, identity, memory, history and the natural world.

In the artist’s works over the last several years, the border, the territory and the map have recurred as potent forms that point to broad historical narratives as well as the manner in which human kind have left the imprint of history on geography. In the recent suite of six drawings titled