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Mimesis, 2024

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4-color screenprint and 2-color lithograph with hand-applied bindis, resulting in small unique variations on Somerset Warm White 400 gsm paper

14.17 x 15.47 in

36.0 x 39.3 cm

Edition of 26

This work is signed and numbered by the artist.

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About The Work

Mimesis has been generously created and donated by Bharti Kher in support of her exhibition Alchemies, which opens at Yorkshire Sculpture Park on June 22 2024. It is Kher’s most extensive UK museum presentation to date and is highly ambitious in size and scope. The exhibition centres the female body and explores transformative potential in a display that brings together intimate works in light-filled galleryspaces with monumental sculpture in the landscape. Alchemies will ignite the imagination and bring Kher’s work to a new and diverse audience, shaping meaningful and inspirational encounters.

Mimesis creates a dynamic exploration of sculptural space with a radiating veil of black serpent bindis overlayed on a polychrome print. It extends the artist’s ongoing desire for mimesis – an attempt to create synergy between external reality and vital internal force. In Kher’s deft expression of the 3-dimensional on a 2-dimensional surface, the work conveys a strong sense of the movement between layers and the negative spaces in between. Blending 4-colour screen print and 2-colour lithograph, the base print draws from the artist’s Body Incantatory series, made in 2019 during a residency in Somerset. Writing about the series, Kate Macfarlane described the works as “an investigation – of colour, of form, of how to create on a two-dimensional surface a sense of space, and of the body.”

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About Bharti Kher

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