Rina Banerjee: Residency at 176
14 Sept –14 Oct 2007
As part of An Archaeology New York based artist Rina Banarjee worked in residence at 176 to produce a site-specific art work for both the exhibition and the Collection. Rina created a floating Taj Mahal sculpture - a tourist attraction that exists principally in the imagination as a monument to both memory and love.
During her residency Banerjee invited visitors to contribute their expectations and reminiscences of travel, migration and pilgrimage, collecting and creating personal souvenirs from objects and physical experiences which were incorporated into the artist’s work in the form of objects and written notes.
During the residency an In Conversation event took place between Rina Banerjee and Sandhini Poddar, Assistant Curator of Asian Art at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in New York.