Reproduction Gone Awry: Doubled Mother and Estranged Child in the Work of Bharti Kher
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 5 PM
About this Event
595 College Ave, DeKalb, IL 60115
https://www.niu.edu/artmuseum/events/index.shtmlAssociate professor of art history Sarah Evans will talk about British (currently living in India) contemporary painting, sculpture and installation artist Bharti Kher in this illustrated lecture.
Bharti Kher is a celebrated Indian artist best known for painting-like works piled with thousands of colorful stick-on bindis (a decorative mark worn on the forehead). While some are traditionally circular others are sperm-shaped, setting up an army of female and male gametes (reproductive cells) for rendezvous that never happen. Evans recounts her investigation of Bharti Kher's focus on faulty reproduction, hybrid creatures, and strange mothers.
Location: Altgeld Hall 125
This lecture is in conjunction with the NIU Art Museum's College of Visual and Performing Arts Faculty Biennial Exhibition.
The exhibitions and programs of the NIU Art Museum are sponsored in part by the Friends of the NIU Art Museum; the NIU Art and Culture Fee and the College of Visual and Performing Arts Season Presenting Sponsor Shaw Media and WNIJ/WNIU.