Exhibition
I would rather be a lover than a fighter

A textile installation by Nadin Reschke

Fri, 22.11.2019
6:30 PM 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery

German artist Nadin Reschke stayed 5 weeks at 1 Shanthi Road as part of the bangaloREsidency. Central to her practice is creating and facilitating processes and situations of communication. Her way of working is based on direct exchange with people. She lives and works in Berlin, but many of her works are created in transcultural contexts. 

In her exhibition, I would rather be a lover than a fighter, Nadin draws from her own experiences in the city of Bangalore as a starting point to engage in conversation with women about their involvement in the city.  She focuses on how they navigate gendered spaces and roles within familial environments and employ personal tactics to deal with the city. The work also touches on issues and concerns of different sexualities, gender identities and sexual violence against women and gender minorities.

Nadin employs the traditional saree as a sculptural material and collaborates with a local screen printer to print the individual narratives as text onto the textiles, emphasising the origins of the two words – textile and text – which come from the same Latin origin meaning “to weave.” The work has culminated in a textile installation bringing together a pluralistic view that recognises gendered realities, which in turn hopes for possibilities of change in the way we construct our realities and the way in which we shape the cities we live in. 

*On view on November 23 & 24, 2019 from 10.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m.*