Tanya
Bonakdar Gallery USA | NEW YORK |
CHELSEA
JUNE 22,
2017-JULY 28, 2017
Tanya
Bonakdar Gallery is very pleased to announce its second solo exhibition with
Meschac Gaba. On view June 22–July 28, 2017, the exhibition weaves together
three bodies of work, forging a powerful commentary on contemporary cultural
identity and the current state of immigrants and refugees.
Inspired by
his experience living between the Netherlands and Benin since the late 1990s,
Gaba has navigated and closely examined national and transnational identity
constructs under the tumult of globalization. By playfully restructuring
relationships between the Western world and developing worlds, the local and
the global, art and the everyday, Gaba brings into question dominant codes and
frameworks of identity and value.
In the
gallery’s ground floor exhibition space, the artist presents a large-scale,
multi-colored participatory work entitled Reflection Room Tent. Creating a
direct reference to the tents used in refugee camps around the world, this
colorful room-sized tent is intended to be used as a ‘drawing room,’ where
viewers are encouraged to create unique expression and hang their pieces up for
view.
While
refugee tents harbor those in exile and plight, Gaba’s Reflection Room
Tent sets out as a platform for
discourse, process, and debate—a live testimonial that grows and evolves over
the course of the exhibition as a collective rumination on current events. The
tent’s vibrant colors and vivid patterns embody Gaba’s hopeful concept of
Citoyen du Monde—an imagined global flag created from a union of elongated
versions of all individual world flags.
Contact
details
521 West
21st Street , Chelsea - New York, NY, USA 10011
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