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Re-Write

Re-write is a project looking at how people construct traditional ritual spaces in contemporary times. Through ritualising we ‘re-write’ and re-contextualise personal memories and include them to a larger collective whole. In today’s world these ceremonial acts /moments whether it is part of a wedding, pregnancy, birth or death so on and so are captured through photographic images and immediately compiled into albums that represent a kind of exteriorised memory.

This project took shape while going through some of the personal photo albums of close friends and relatives who narrated the tales of their tryst with ‘sacred time’ through these images. Interweaving personal memories within these collected images, Re-write is an attempt to understand and recreate essence of the experience of mythic time and space.

Born in Bombay, Vidya Kamat acquired her Bachelors of Fine Art degree from University of Bombay in 1984. In 1999 the University of Bombay awarded her a doctoral degree for her thesis -"Myths and Symbols in Pictorial Expressions as Seen from Sanskrit and allied literature”. Having been awarded as the best student of the year in 1983 as well as the Fellow of Goa College of Art, Goa. Since then she has been teaching, writing on art and mythology, and exhibiting sporadically.

For past eight years she has been invited to teach at the University of Department of Sanskrit, Bombay on the subject of comparative mythology. She has presented numerous academic papers at the national level seminars and has several research publications to her credit. She has been currently awarded Majlis cultural fellowship for the year 2002 - 2003.

`Re-write` Digital Photomontages on vinyl Vidya Kamat 18th July to 24th July, 2005 11.00 am to 7.00 pm at The Museum Gallery K. Dubash Marg, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400 023 Click on the picture for details.





















Re-Write Re-write is a project looking at how people construct traditional ritual spaces in contemporary times. Through ritualising we ‘re-write’ and re-contextualise personal memories and include them to a larger collective whole. In today’s world these ceremonial acts /moments whether it is part of a wedding, pregnancy, birth or death so on and so are captured through photographic images and immediately compiled into albums that represent a kind of exteriorised memory. This project took shape while going through some of the personal photo albums of close friends and relatives who narrated the tales of their tryst with ‘sacred time’ through these images. Interweaving personal memories within these collected images, Re-write is an attempt to understand and recreate essence of the experience of mythic time and space. Born in Bombay, Vidya Kamat acquired her Bachelors of Fine Art degree from University of Bombay in 1984. In 1999 the University of Bombay awarded her a doctoral degree for her thesis -"Myths and Symbols in Pictorial Expressions as Seen from Sanskrit and allied literature”. Having been awarded as the best student of the year in 1983 as well as the Fellow of Goa College of Art, Goa. Since then she has been teaching, writing on art and mythology, and exhibiting sporadically. For past eight years she has been invited to teach at the University of Department of Sanskrit, Bombay on the subject of comparative mythology. She has presented numerous academic papers at the national level seminars and has several research publications to her credit. She has been currently awarded Majlis cultural fellowship for the year 2002 - 2003.