Sujata Majumdar

The exhibition will be open from 10th july – 7th november 2018

special events

7th November : viewing and finissage

You are cordially invited to join me for the closing of the exhibition

on Wednesday 7th November, 17.00 – 19.30

at the Brummelkamp Galerie in the Academic Medical Centre

13th September : viewing and storytelling event 

9th August : viewing and tickbird&rhino social

10th July : opening and view

surface tension 

a solo photography exhibition at the Brummelkamp Galerie in the Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam

https://www.amc.nl/web/over-de-locatie-amc/organisatie/adres-route-en-parkeren.htm

AMC
Meibergdreef 9
1105 AZ Amsterdam Zuidoost

surface tension

Each photograph in this exhibition represents some form of tension at a surface.

Not only is the photograph a two-dimensional surface, but Sujata also chooses to play with the medium to represent her subjects even more flatly. This probably arose from her love of science, in particular familiarity with scientific diagrams and microscope slides, and reducing things to dimensions one can comprehend easily.

Her photography often depicts a tension between conflicting sides trying to achieve a balance, be it nature’s weathering of man-made creations, or the conflict between different materials in a landscape. The struggle between the two sides leads to new creations and these boundary crossings are where her interest lies. Such as a wall becoming a canvas for landscape imagery evolving on its surface, it somehow longs for nature – waterfalls, tributaries, hillsides – while existing in an urban setting. Or the uncanny preservation of a single face in a weathered collage of old newspapers, making us wonder whether someone interfered with nature’s course.

Sujata is currently ‘Crossing Parallels’ artist in residence at TU Delft, where she conducts artistic research on patterning concrete surfaces, in collaboration with Stephen Picken, Professor of Polymers. This evolved directly from her photography series Concrete Abstraction. Her idea is to seed the works and to encourage nature to follow its course in a particular way to create beautiful patterns on concrete surfaces, much like those in Inversion and Hillscape (2015).

Please come to see the exhibition and join me for the opening:

You are cordially invited on

Tuesday 10th July, 16.00 – 19.00

to the Brummelkamp Galerie in the Academic Medical Centre