Bhasha Chakrabarti
Item Number 2004.111 at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, 2023
Oil on burlap, and thread
16 x 8 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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