Covering Letter PMA(16)
Covering Letter Jitish Kallat 2012
In Revolution
Artist Jitish Kallat embraces an interdependent notion of time as his work weaves together contexts and events into a constellation that is neither solely of the past, nor of the future, but which finds repeating intersections in the present.
"This is not simply an artwork about Gandhi and Hitler, or divine and devil, but from one life view to another."
Henry David Thoreau in Civil Disobedience, describes the revolutionary as one who emerges "in a counter-friction to stop the machine." In Covering Letter, Gandhi's words repeat like a looped scroll, calling to the revolutionaries of today--the carriers of a new justice paradigm--to disrupt our circuitry.
( from the notes Philadelphia Museum of Art )
Covering Letter PMA(16)
Covering Letter Jitish Kallat 2012
In Revolution
Artist Jitish Kallat embraces an interdependent notion of time as his work weaves together contexts and events into a constellation that is neither solely of the past, nor of the future, but which finds repeating intersections in the present.
"This is not simply an artwork about Gandhi and Hitler, or divine and devil, but from one life view to another."
Henry David Thoreau in Civil Disobedience, describes the revolutionary as one who emerges "in a counter-friction to stop the machine." In Covering Letter, Gandhi's words repeat like a looped scroll, calling to the revolutionaries of today--the carriers of a new justice paradigm--to disrupt our circuitry.
( from the notes Philadelphia Museum of Art )