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Navjot
Altaf is represented at the 2nd Yinchuan
Biennale, curated by Marco Scotini with curatorial team of Andris Brinkmanis,
Paolo Caffoni, Zasha Colah and Lu Xinghua.
Navjot
Altaf presents ‘Soul
Breath Wind’ a
video project in process based on artist’s research on the political
situation, agenda of development and anthropogenic environmental changes in
Chhattisgarh.
“The loss and destruction of fertile land and soil, forests and biodiversity
have had severe impact on the day to day existence and identity of
indigenous communities living there for centuries and their rights to
decision making…This has led to massive forced and undesired displacements
of local habitants, resulting in marginalization of indigenous way of
life, their oral tradition of knowledge, cultural environment in which both
human, other species and nature could prosper and cultural dynamics are
not destroyed, tacit knowledge which is not always known explicitly. Oral
cultures encourage the participatory life of the senses, and are linked to
the concept of relationship with more than the human terrain and its
potential to create experience at several conscious and subconscious levels.
Their relationship to land, forest or water which is rooted in very
different conceptual frameworks offers insight into ourselves and the belief
in interconnectedness, interdependence. This has been part of the wisdom of
people for centuries, which has been transmitted orally across generations.
The video addresses the impact of imposed segregation from their live-world
in North-Central part of Chhattisgarh and dealing with the conflicts between
the communities and the Police force, Police force and the ultra-left forces
in South
Bastar District … And what is lost and is being lost…” – Navjot Altaf
Navjot
Altaf was granted an international award for Public Art Project for Nalpar
and Pilla Gudi –
2013
Navjot
Altaf’s latest participations include: Free
River Zone at
the Kunstverein Heidelberg, curated by Tillkrause, Southern Germany, 2017; Landscape
of Testimonies: Artist as Witness. Zuleikha Choudhary and KHOJ, New
Delhi, India, 2017; Stretched
Terrains - Interpositions: Replaying the Inventory, curated
by Roobina Karode, Kiran
Nadar Museum of Art, KNMA, New Delhi, India, 2017; Why
Not Ask Again 11th
Shanghai Biennale curated by Raqs Media Collective, Shanghai China, 2016/17; Environmental
Justice - Film
Festival, curated by Heather Davis, Institute for the Arts and Humanities,
The Pennsylvania State University - PSU, USA, 2016; Making
Sense of Crisis - Art
as Schizoanalysis: A Symposium and Exhibition at Khoj, January 2015; Is
it what you think? Kiran
Nadar Museum, New Delhi, curated by Roobina Karode, 2014; Forms
of Activis, Sahmat celebrating 25 years curated
by Vivan Sundaram and Sasha Altaf, 2014; Rewriting
the landscape : India and China : Contemporary Art from China and India, National
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, curated by Choi Eunju and Kate Lim,
Korea, 2013; Water:
EuropaliaIndiaLiege, Belgium, Germany, curated by Gayatri Sinha, 2013; Women
In – Between: Asian Women Artists 1984-2012. Fukuoka Asia Art Museum,
Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of
fine Arts and Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Japan, curated by Raiji Kuroda,
2012/13.Lacuna in Testimony, Patricia and Phillip Frost Art
Museum, Florida, 2009; Public
Places Private Spaces, Newark Museum, New York and Minneapolis
Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, curated by Gayatri Sinha and Paul Stern
Berger, 2008; Tiger
by the Tail: Women Artists Transforming Culture, Brandies University /
Museum Boston and New Brunswick Rutgers University, Douglass Library,
Newark,curated by Wendy Tarlow Kaplan, Elinor W.Gadon and Roobina Karode,
2008; India
Now: Contemporary Indian Art between Continuity and Transition,
Provincia di Milano,Italy, curated by Daniela Palazzoli, 2007. Navjot
Altaf’s works have been shown in Yamuna.
Elbe A public art project at
the Yamuna in Delhi and the Elbe in Hamburg, curated by Ravi Agarwal (Delhi)
and Till Krause (Hamburg), 2011; ‘IN CONTEXT: Public.Art. Ecology’, Project,
Khoj International Artists Residency, New Delhi, 2010. Zones
of Contact, 15th Biennale of Sydney Australia, curated by Charles
Merewether, 2006; Groundworks: Environmental Collaboration in
Contemporary Art, Carnegie Mellon University, (RMG) Pittsburgh, curated
by Grant Kester, 2005; Another
Passage To India, Theatre Saint-Gervais and Musee d’ Ethnographie,
Geneva, Switzerland, curated by Pooja Sood, 2004; Zoom!
Art in Contemporary India, Edificia Sede de Caixo Garal de Depositos,
Lisbon, curated by Luis Sepra and Nancy Adajania, 2004; Century
City - Bombay/Mumbai: City Politics and Visual Culture in the 90’s, Tate
Modern, London, curated by Geeta Kapur and Ashish Rajadhyaksha, 2001; subTerrain:artworks
in the cityfold, Haus der Kulteren der Welt, Berlin curated by Geeta
Kapur, 2003; 8th Havana Biennale, Cuba, 2003; Liminal
Zones, Apeejay Media Gallery, New Delhi, curated by Pooja Sood, 2003.
Solo
exhibitions include: Lost
Text at
The Guild, Alibaug 2018, How
Perfect Perfection Can Be at
The Guild, Alibaug, 2015; Horn
in the Head,
Sculpture Installation with audio and video, Talwar Gallery, New Delhi,
2013; Touch IV, Video Installation, The Guild, Mumbai, 2010 and Talwar
Gallery, New Delhi; A
Place in New York an
interactive photo based project, The Guild, Mumbai, 2010; Touch-
Remembering Altaf,
Video and motor based sculpture Installation, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, 2008; Bombay
Shots,
an interactive photo based project, The Guild, Mumbai, 2008; Junctions
1 2 3, The
Guild, Mumbai, 2006 and Jagar Multimedia
Installation, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, 2006; Water
Weaving, Video
Installation, Talwar Gallery, New York, 2005, among others.
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