
Rina Banerjee
With breath Taking Consumption Her Commerce Ate While She Was Being Eaten, 2008
Mixed media: Jute, wood charpai, cowerie shells, glass & thread
approximately: 250 x 400 cm
'With breathtaking consumption (2008; plate 3a-b) is seductively dangerous- one can imagine the silky feel of feathers against the sharpness of shards of glass vials. There is a creature at...
"With breathtaking consumption (2008; plate 3a-b) is seductively dangerous- one can imagine the silky feel of feathers against the sharpness of shards of glass vials. There is a creature at the centre of the rickety jute bed that threatens to bite. A horrible act driven by desire has happened here. Yet the bed, with its snaking talk of cow wire shells, thread, and the vials and feathers, seems to be transforming into a revengeful mythological creatures" - In the catalogue, Rina Banerjee Make me a Summary of the World, 2018, Make Me a Summary of the World by Jodi Throckmorton, page 23.
"Drawn to organic shapes that reflect internal organs, the sexualization of the body, and "how we are built inside," she toys with connections in nature: corrals in relation to the coiled lobes of the brain, intestines, and more. These ideas are taken to their extreme in one sculpture form 2008 presents a bodily-like form as an unravelled mass of internal organs, spilling outwards from a wooden divan across the gallery floor. The consumption of desire and flesh itself is expressed in the work's cryptic title, which reads: With breathtakingconsumption her commerce ate while she was being eaten (2008; plate 3a-b)." - In the catalogue, Rina Banerjee Make me a Summary of the World, 2018, Rina Banerjee Global Travler , Rachel Kent, page 93
"Drawn to organic shapes that reflect internal organs, the sexualization of the body, and "how we are built inside," she toys with connections in nature: corrals in relation to the coiled lobes of the brain, intestines, and more. These ideas are taken to their extreme in one sculpture form 2008 presents a bodily-like form as an unravelled mass of internal organs, spilling outwards from a wooden divan across the gallery floor. The consumption of desire and flesh itself is expressed in the work's cryptic title, which reads: With breathtaking
Provenance
Espace Gallery, New Delhi, India
Exhibitions
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NO | Rina Banerjee: Make Me a Summary of the World | February 2021 - July 2021.Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN | Rina Banerjee: Make Me a Summary of the World | October 2020 - January 2021.
Fowler Museum at University of California, LA | Rina Banerjee: Make Me a Summary of the World | December 2019 - May 2020.
San Jose Museum of Art, CA | Rina Banerjee: Make Me a Summary of the World | May 2019 - October 2019.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) | Rina Banerjee: Make Me a Summary of the World | October 2018 - March 2019.
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Taipei, Taiwan | Finding India: Art for the New century | October 2010 - December 2010.
Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India | Allure | December 2008 - January 2009.
Publications
CBS Philly | "‘Make Me A Summary Of The World’ Exhibit Brings Indian Art To PAFA" | July 7, 2018."Finding India: Art of the new century" | San Jose Museum of Art, Taipei, Taiwan | October - December 2019.
The Editors of ARTnews | "Rina Banerjee at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia" | ARTnews | 01/03/19.
Art + Education | "Rina Banerjee: Make Me a Summary of the World" | Art + Education | October 2, 2018.
"Rina Banerjee: Make Me a Summary of the World, Catalog" | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and San Jose Museum of Art.