Catalogue published for the titled exhibition at Gallery Espace, New Delhi from March to April 2010. It presents works by Indian artist Tejal Shah and Chinese artist Han Bing that encompass performance, photography, video and multimedia installation. In her essay, Maya Kovskaya calls 'A Cry from the Narrow Between' a visual, aural and conceptual exploration of the tension between Eros and Thanatos—the personifications of love and death in Greek mythology—expressed in sometimes transgressive, and socially-constructed practices of self-making and nation-building. The exhibition takes its title from the Greek poet Sappho's The Arbour, directing our gaze towards the liminal spaces between destruction and creation, the erotic and the violent, the autonomous and the determined, against the backdrop of India and China's changing societies. For both artists, the 'narrow between' transcends the personal and touches on interlocked questions of gender, sexuality, desire, power, self-making, and nation-making. Biographies included in catalogue.
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2010

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A Cry from the Narrow Between: Eros and Thanatos in the Works of Tejal Shah & Han Bing - Maya KOVSKAYA

A Cry from the Narrow Between
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A Cry from the Narrow Between