Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt was founded in 1986, and is an exhibition venue of significant influence in the European art landscape. Recently, they opened an art exhibition titled Gauri Gill: Acts of Resistance and Repair, a solo showcase of Indian photographer Gauri Gill’s oeuvre from the past 25 years. Curator Esther Schlicht and Gill bring together around 240 works from different projects. The impressive and substantial body of work on view, is in itself a gargantuan task to curate. Schlicht says, “Presenting an artist’s work so extensively for the first time after more than 20 years of production is a challenge, especially for the artist herself. Gill’s work is multifaceted, she pursues a variety of pictorial strategies. What unites the works beyond formal and conceptual differences is the artist’s profound interest in people, their resistance and creativity, and her collaborative approach, based on dialogue and exchange.” Gill’s singularly dexterous practice explores documentary photography through community-engaging methods. Schlicht comments on the expansive nature of Gill’s practice saying, “I am sure that (through Gill’s work) visitors will also realise how photography can operate as an artistic means of emancipation and empowerment, even in times flooded by ceaselessly circulating digital images, and how empathic engagement can produce new forms of knowledge and understanding.”
Gauri Gill's 'Acts of Resistance and Repair' presents over 20 years of her work
by Shraddha Nair | Stir World
21 December 2022
