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Clark Art Institute to hold lecture on rerouting Indian modernism
The lecture will be presented by Rakhee Balaram, professor of art and art history at the State University of New York at Albany
Rakhee Balaram / Image - ici-berlin.org
The Clark Art Institute’s Research and Academic Program will present a lecture on rerouting Indian modernism. The lecture will be presented on December 5 by Clark fellow Rakhee Balaram.
The lecture looks to South America and Japan to consider the origins of Tagore’s drawings and paintings which were exhibited in Paris in 1930. Balaram will question the written histories regarding Rabindranath Tagore’s art, to open up new conversations about the historical avant-garde and its limits during her lecture.
“Balaram draws on scientific, economic and legal discourses, and both cross-cultural analysis and popular culture to examine Tagore’s erasures, drawings, and paintings, which offer revolutionary perspectives on current debates in the field,” the institute said in a statement.
Balaram is an associate professor of global art and art history at the State University of New York at Albany, where she specializes in modern and contemporary art. She is the author of two books Counterpractice: Psychoanalysis and the Art of ‘French Feminism’ which were published in 2022. At the Clark, she will work on a book on two Indian artists Amrita Sher-Gil and Tagore.
Balaram is interested in issues of global art history, theory and art criticism, and the philosophies of digital media, technology, and machine learning. Her research has been supported by the Art Histories Fellowship in Berlin, Germany, and the ICI Berlin Institute of Cultural Inquiry, the Tata SPEAR grant at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, among others. She holds a double doctorate in French literature from Cambridge University and the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.
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