Art Buzz (New Delhi) Gautam Kansara

Detail from: 'Dahl, Baht, Roti, Shak', 2008, Photo/Audio Installation

Shrine Empire Gallery invites you to a solo exhibition of New York based artist Gautam Kansara.

The show previews on 12 March, 2010, 6.00 - 9.00 p.m.

New Delhi

Don’t Hurry, Don’t Worry features a selection of video, photo, and sound-based works that utilize candid recordings of Kansara’s family to address memory and ageing, familial hierarchies, emotional availability, and cultural displacement.

The works are anchored by recordings of Kansara and his family in spontaneous conversation; which, through tight editing, reveal shifting dynamics of influence and support.

Central to this body of work is the long-term nature of Kansara’s practice. For the past 6 years he has been filming his family interacting, and analyzing and contemplating the complexities of the changing relationship as he makes new work. In doing so he has amassed an archive of footage to draw upon, almost all of which has been filmed within his grandparent’s flat in London.

Gautam Kansara (b. 1979, London) is an artist and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. He holds a MA in New Media from New York University and a Bachelor in Studio Art from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Since moving to New York in 2002 Kansara’s video and photographic work have been featured internationally in numerous exhibitions and screenings, most recently Kansara’s video work was screened as part of Video_Dumbo, an annual event in Brooklyn, featuring cutting edge contemporary video art from around the world. Since 2005 Kansara has been a faculty member at Manhattan College, New York.