"Possessions"
Jitish Kallat
NATURE MORTE
703, Chiranjiv Tower, 43, Nehru Place New Delhi 110019 India
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Frieze London 2020
Regent's Park, London NW1 4HAT : +33 1 53 30 85 20 F : +33 1 53 30 85 25 e-mail:
9 > 16 October
Nature Morte is pleased to announce its participation in the new edition of the Frieze Viewing Room. Jitish Kallat's solo presentation is a part of the Frieze Focus presentation, Possessions, curated by Zoe Whitley.
Kallat's solo presentation brings together two distinct yet parallel strands in his practice. The immersive installation, Covering Letter (terranum nuncius) draws select sounds and images from the two phonographic Golden Records that were dispatched into interstellar space as a planetary message to extra-terrestrial life by NASA in 1977. Currently located over 13 billion miles away from Planet Earth, the contents of this 'time capsule' were assembled for NASA by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan. It is expected to continue its cosmic journey well beyond the probable extinction of our species and our planet. The sounds permeating the gallery are greetings to the universe in 55 languages while the large round table carries images that range from scientific and cosmological diagrams to flora and fauna as well as representations of our genetic make-up and anatomy. A diagram resembling the one on the cover of the Golden Record is projected on the wall showing our place amongst the stars, it is our return address. At a time when we find ourselves in a deeply divided world, Kallat foregrounds these sounds and images for a collective meditation on ourselves as united residents of a single planet, where the 'other' is an unknown 'intergalactic alien'.
Jitish Kallat's recent paintings seem to straddle the scientific and the metaphysical taking the form of speculative and exploratory abstractions. A meticulously hand-drawn graph lies underneath the imagery, which is replete with signs and a web-work of free associations. Botanical, cosmological, sub-oceanic and geological formations intermingle to reveal signatures of growth, evolution and entropy.
Kallat's solo presentation brings together two distinct yet parallel strands in his practice. The immersive installation, Covering Letter (terranum nuncius) draws select sounds and images from the two phonographic Golden Records that were dispatched into interstellar space as a planetary message to extra-terrestrial life by NASA in 1977. Currently located over 13 billion miles away from Planet Earth, the contents of this 'time capsule' were assembled for NASA by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan. It is expected to continue its cosmic journey well beyond the probable extinction of our species and our planet. The sounds permeating the gallery are greetings to the universe in 55 languages while the large round table carries images that range from scientific and cosmological diagrams to flora and fauna as well as representations of our genetic make-up and anatomy. A diagram resembling the one on the cover of the Golden Record is projected on the wall showing our place amongst the stars, it is our return address. At a time when we find ourselves in a deeply divided world, Kallat foregrounds these sounds and images for a collective meditation on ourselves as united residents of a single planet, where the 'other' is an unknown 'intergalactic alien'.
Jitish Kallat's recent paintings seem to straddle the scientific and the metaphysical taking the form of speculative and exploratory abstractions. A meticulously hand-drawn graph lies underneath the imagery, which is replete with signs and a web-work of free associations. Botanical, cosmological, sub-oceanic and geological formations intermingle to reveal signatures of growth, evolution and entropy.
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