Frozen World of The Familiar Stranger

 In yet another ground breaking show, Khoj International Artists’ Association presents Frozen World of the Familiar Stranger, a group show of video installations, performances and artworks featuring ten Indian and international artists at Khoj Studios S-17, Khirkee Extension, New Delhi from December 8, 2016 to January 11, 2017, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The featured artists are Cao Fei (China), Farideh Lashai (Iran), Himali Singh Soin (India), Ho Tzu Nyen (Singapore), Kartik Sood (India), Maya Watanabe (Peru), Rachel Rose (USA), Sahej Rahal (India), Steffani Jemison (USA) and Tejal Shah (India). The exhibition is the result of a curatorial collaboration between KADIST (an experimental arts space in San Francisco), and Khoj International Artists’ Association, New Delhi). It is co-curated by Sitara Chowfla (Khoj) and Heidi Rabben (KADIST).

The exhibition was earlier held at Kadist San Francisco in October-November 2016 and is now slated to travel to Khoj Studios in Delhi from December 8 till January 11, 2017.

Says Sitara Chowfla, curator, Khoj Studios, “Frozen World of the Familiar Stranger reflects upon the uncanny sensation of the ultra-modern global megalopolis, and the increasing sense of alienation we encounter in our flattening world. Through works exploring isolation, confinement, collapse, transience, anxieties, and fantasies of inhabiting collective urban space, Frozen World offers an almost satirical point of view on the human condition and what it means to be alive together in the present, and in the constructed future.”