Past Programmes

In Space Between

Yamini Nayar's photographs of fictional architectures stem from a deep interest in idealized structures, lived experience and memory. Her large color photographs are documents of sculptures and installations built in her studio from various lo-tech and found materials and collected imagery. Once recorded, the structures are disassembled and discarded. Only the photograph remains, as a document, an object and entry point into a moment held together solely for the lens. Nayar's work is a slowing down and questioning of the photographic moment, as it relates to larger themes of architecture, colonialism, displacement and the history of modernity. This talk by Nayar, in conjunction with her exhibition at Amrita Jhaveri, will explore the sources and impetus behind her work.

Yamini Nayar

Yamini Nayar recently held residencies at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY, and is an artist-in-residence with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, 2011-12. She is also currently a Visiting Artist Scholar with New York University Steinhardt School of Art, 2011-12. Nayar's work will be included in the upcoming publication, Unfixed: Photography and Postcolonial Perspectives in Contemporary Art.