- Jal, Jungal, Jameen
- from the series Fields of Sight, 2013–ongoing
Frame (each): 48 11/16 × 68 5/16 × 1 1/2 in. (123.6 × 173.5 × 3.8 cm)
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For a decade, the photographer Gauri Gill and Indigenous painter Rajesh Vangad have collaborated, combining the contemporary language of photography with the ancient folk art of Warli painting. For Jal, Jungal, Jameen (meaning “water, forest, land”), Gill photographed Vangad by the river’s edge, amid trees and standing in the fields; on Gill’s prints, Vangad drew not only fish, plant life, and farm dwellings but also sinking tankers, fires, factories, trucks, paved roads, bullet trains, concrete buildings, lumber mills, and densely populated cities—forces that threaten the Indigenous population and their traditions of life in harmony with the natural world.
ProvenanceThe artists; [James Cohan Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2023.
Exhibition History"Gauri Gill. Acts of Resistance and Repair", Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, October 13, 2022–January 8, 2023; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, January 26, 2023-April 10, 2023
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