28.09.2007 - 23.11.2007
Rina Banerjee's work explores specific colonial moments that reinvent place and identity as complex diasporic experiences, their aesthetic and cultural beginnings suggest in particular how the many regional culture affects continue to stain our perceptions of home, the exotic, the foreign and domestic worlds. Her system of assemblage' of colonial objects, souveniers and decorative crafts make the experience of seeing artifact and history in art making as an entangled process which reconfigure our boundaries and those trespasses that occur with increased mobility. The global place is garden made out of travel both real and imagined and illusionary world.
She began her education/profession as a material science engineer hence the artwork has a sense of material awareness often mixing the organic and plastic to invite a blurring of our recognition. She creates sculptures, installations, videos and drawings inspired by a wide range of mundane objects, home crafts, and her imagery stem from multiple cultural histories both eastern and western art. Rina's characteristically mischievous process of transformation of objects and their cultural locations playfully unhinges them from their unique specificity. The result has been both a fragmented object that offered a new way of seeing the culture. Her use of narrative text which decorate the work with meaning and intention further playing with the idea of artist voice and the aesthetic of exotic beauty physical illusion of ornamental object as sign.
Rina Banerjee was born in 1963, Calcutta, India. Educated at Yale University, School of Art 1995 and currently lives and works in New York City. She has exhibited internationally including solo exhibitions in New York City, with upcoming exhibitions Berlin(2007), Paris(2006) . She has shown in such prominent group exhibitions as Tsumari – Echigo's 3rd Triennial , Japan(2006), The Greater New York Show, PS1 MOMA(2005), Massachusetes Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams (2004), Whitney Museum of American Art's Atliera Space(2003).The Whitney Biennial (2000) at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
