Divine Horsemen: Chitra Ganesh & Simone Leigh is on view at Mason Gross Galleries, Courtesy Chitra Ganesh & Simone Leigh
Curated by LaToya Ruby Frazier, Divine Horsemen: Chitra Ganesh & Simone Leigh is on view at Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers University until January 15, 2011.
Homa Nasab – When and how did you two meet?
Simone Leigh & Chitra Ganesh – We met several years ago through mutual friends and colleagues. Since then, we have occupied intersecting spaces in the NYC arts communities we inhabit, and in the process have begun to discuss and develop our overlapping formal and conceptual concerns. In this time, we have participated in residencies and exhibitions in NYC based artist-centered spaces such as Exit Art and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
HN – How did the idea of your collaboration come about? Have either of your collaborated with other artists before…?
CG – The idea of the project came about in thinking about how to further activate the relationship between our practices – which are formally quite divergent, but share certain key conceptual investigations. Simone’s work is object based and my practice is more focused on drawing. The piece isn’t a collaboration as such in the ways that I have collaborated with artists previously – where both of us work together to make a singular final product. In this case, the collaboration was more about creating an environment, or responding to a similar set of concerns, by juxtaposing and contextualizing our two discrete works and practices – Simone’s hanging sculpture and gravel drawing, along with my wall installation, together formed a response and way of rethinking some of the ideas presented in Maya Deren’s film Divine Horsemen.
SL – This experience felt like an outcome of a conversation I’ve had with Chitra over the years. I wanted to show my work alongside Chitra’s for many years because there is so much discursive overlap. This may not be obvious because of our use of different materials and approaches.
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