Final 10 days of The Sovereign Forest at Nepal Art Council

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Greetings all +++ 

After an incredible four-month run, The Sovereign Forest closes in Kathmandu on March 31st, 2024. You have exactly 10 days to visit or revisit the exhibition, and bring friends, family, colleagues and students!

The Sovereign Forest is an exhibition both beautiful and haunting, that resonates strongly for us here in Nepal as we attempt to fully understand the impacts of large-scale development projects on our communities and territories. It begs us to consider one key question; what are we willing to sacrifice as we make strides towards achieving more growth and progress? The Sovereign Forest is a distinctive experience of art that enables us to move closer to comprehending loss, pain, resistance and hope. The exhibition will continue to travel the world, and we encourage you not to miss it while it is still in Kathmandu.

Amar Kanwar

THE SOVEREIGN FOREST

In collaboration with Sudhir Pattnaik/Samadrusti and Sherna Dastur

Nepal Art Council, Babar Mahal, Kathmandu

11 am - 6 pm | Open every day | Free and open to the public

Exhibition on view until March 31, 2024

For guided tours and other inquiries, please call 97045 09901 or email prog...@photocircle.com.np

About The Sovereign Forest

Rooted in the socio-political landscape of Odisha, The Sovereign Forest emerges from extensive work in a region that has witnessed conflicts between local communities, government entities, and corporations over control of agricultural lands, forests, rivers, and mineral resources. The Sovereign Forest includes a constellation of films, texts, books, photographs, seeds and processes that initiate a creative response to our understanding of crime, politics, human rights and ecology. More about the exhibition here.

About Amar Kanwar 

Amar Kanwar‘s films and multi-media works explore the politics of power, violence and justice. His multi-layered installations originate in narratives often drawn from zones of conflict and are characterised by a poetic cinematic vocabulary that open up multiple layers of experience and comprehension. Recent solo and group exhibitions of Kanwar’s work have been held at Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (2023); Sharjah Biennale 15, UAE (2023), Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kerala, India (2022); Castello Di Rivoli, Turin (2022), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2022); Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai (2020); NYUAD Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi (2020) among others. Kanwar has participated in Documenta 11, 12, 13 and 14 in Kassel, Germany (2002, 2007, 2012, 2017). He has been the recipient of awards such as the Prince Claus Award (2017); Leonore Annenberg Prize for Art and Social Change (2014); an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts, Maine College of Art, USA (2006); the Edvard Munch Award for Contemporary Art, Norway (2005); the Golden Gate Award, San Francisco International Film Festival, USA (1999), as well as the Golden Conch, Mumbai International Film Festival, India (1998).

More about the artist here.

We look forward to seeing you soon!

- Team PC