Tourists in Our Own Land
Chila Kumari Burman, Hard Times: Dad and me in the Kitchen, 1995, cibachrome print.
9 July - 8 August, 1998
Opening reception
Thursday, 9 July. 7-8pm
All the artists will be present. Admission id free.
Artist talk
Thursday, 9 July. 7-8pm
Chila Kumari Burman presents an artist talk consisting of a slide lecture and video presentation.
Tuesday, 21 July, 8-10pm
Gallery 44 hosts the launch party for Desh Pardesh
Tourists in Our Own Land(s) is an exhibition of photography, slide projections and video by three artists of South Asian descent. Each of these artists has created visually stunning, challenging works which employ the tropes of travel and tourism as metaphors for cultural displacement. Regardless of the specific media or imagery used, these works set up dramatic contrast between East and West, past and present, and tradition and contemporaneity to evoke the ironies and contradictions of the first, second and third generation immigrant experience. The exhibition is accompanied by a complementary exhibition catalogue, featuring full-colour reproductions and a text by Toronto writer Prasad Bidaye.
