The multi-storey banner featuring artists' photographs at the third International Print Exchange Programme (IPEP) exhibition. For the past week it has been exhibited at Bharatiya Nritya Kala Mandir, in Patna, India. Picture supplied
The multi-storey banner featuring artists' photographs at the third International Print Exchange Programme (IPEP) exhibition. For the past week it has been exhibited at Bharatiya Nritya Kala Mandir, in Patna, India. Picture supplied
As an artist, art teacher and all-round lover of art, Hannah King is a regular at exhibition openings across all manner of genres. It is perhaps ironic, then, that she couldn’t go to the opening of the latest show featuring her work. Then again, it was 12,000 kilometres away.
Kingis one of just 55 artists from 21 countries to have work selected for the third International Print Exchange Programme (IPEP) exhibition, which has for the past week been exhibited at Bharatiya Nritya Kala Mandir, in Patna.
And though she couldn’t be there, her face certainly was: to promote the show organiser Rajesh Pullarwar hung from the front of the building a multi-storey-high banner featuring the photographs of the artists. But the concept of the show itself is nothing to smile about.
Pullarwar asked submitting artists to consider the themes of fear and horror to confront the ongoing threat of terrorism. For her submission, King created the print Nihilistic Submission, in which self-obsessed humans focus inwards while the world goes to war.
