Bhasha Chakrabarti
Item Number T.148 to D-1958 at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, 2023
Oil on burlap, and thread
24 x 24 x 1.75 inches
Building on her facsimiles of the two Frick carpets, Bhasha carefully reconstructs the fragments created during the re-trimming process of these objects. After the carpets were elevated to the wall...
Building on her facsimiles of the two Frick carpets, Bhasha carefully reconstructs the fragments created during the re-trimming process of these objects. After the carpets were elevated to the wall of the Frick Collection, their trimmings, suddenly deemed culturally significant, were distributed to major museum collections around the world.
Rendering the recreations in vibrant oil and embroidery, Bhasha challenges our understanding of cultural value, presenting the complicated history through which status is assigned to non-Western objects.
Exhibitions
Item NumberCourtesy of Rajiv Menon Contemporary
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