Autograph’s senior curator, Renée Mussai, reviews our latest artist and writing commissions for the project Care | Contagion | Community – Self & Other, contemplating the experience of 'pandemic time' and its impact on creative processes.
Image captions 1-14: Commissioned by Autograph for Care | Contagion | Community — Self & Other
1) Silvia Rosi, [detail] Neither Could Exist Alone, 2020. Archival giclée print, 8 x 8 inches. 2) Dexter McLean, [detail], Kamahl, from the series Untitled ,2020. Archival giclée print, 12 x 16 inches. 3) Ope Lori, The Lines Between Us, 2020. Film still. 16 minutes 11 seconds. 4) Mohini Chandra, Belated, 2020. Film still. 12 minutes 49 seconds. 5) Joy Gregory, Small Steps [detail], from the series Madam Photo, 2020. Archival giclée print, dimensions variable. 6) Sonal Kantaria, Varda, from the series Ghar, 2020. Archival giclée print, 12 x 16 inches. 7) Silvia Rosi, Neither Could Exist Alone, 2020. Archival giclée print, 8 x 8 inches. 8) Aida Silvestri, Tea [detail] from the series Contagion: Colour on the Front Line, 2020. Tea and pigment ink on cotton fabric; 50 x 65 cm. 9) Poulomi Desai, [detail] Our cultures are the portals - the gateways between one world and the next, 2020. Archival giclée print, 12 x 12 inches. 10) Karl Ohiri, [detail] =, 2020 from the series Equation for Humanity, 2020. Digital Black & White Fibre-Based Gloss Prints, each 11 x 8.8 inches. 11-13) Othello de'Souza-Hartley, Absence, from the series Blind, but I can See, 2020. Archival c-type print (triptych). each 20 x 24 inches. 14) Aida Silvestri, [detail] The Motherland Calls, from the series Contagion: Colour on the Front Line, 2020. Cacao, coffee, tea, sugar and tobacco and pigment ink on cotton fabric; 79 x 102 cm.
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