Divya Mehra
Grief flows very easily into anger and disdain, and creates a soft and radical rage
Holland College, Florence Simmons Performance Hall
Thursday, September 21, 2017 - 6:00-6:30pm
ABOUT THE PROJECT
How do we exist within the crushing indifference of our day to day? Divya Mehra’s performative lecture explores memory, death, and the service industry in a series of non-linear short stories and poetics.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Working in sculpture, print, drawing, artist books, installation, advertising, video, and most recently film, Divya Mehra is known for her meticulous attention to the interaction of form, medium, and site. Through an acerbic tone, she addresses the long-term effects of colonization and institutional racism. Re-contextualizing references found in music, literature, and current affairs, she contends with contemporary expressions of societies continuously formed by their colonial roots. Mehra’s work has been included in a number of exhibitions and screenings, notably with Creative Time, MoMA PS1, MTV, and The Queens Museum of Art (New York), MASS MoCA (North Adams), Artspeak (Vancouver), Art Metropole, and The Images Festival (Toronto), The Beijing 798 Biennale (Beijing), Bielefelder Kunstverein (Bielefeld), and Latitude 28 (Delhi). Mehra holds an MFA from Columbia University and is represented in Toronto by Georgia Scherman Projects.