Baku reports on Garden of Ten Seasons Exhibition at Savvy Contemporary in Berlin
At the 59th edition of the Venice Biennale an announcement was made at the Nepal Pavilion, that a collaborative initiative between Kathmandu Triennale, Savvy Contemporary, Para Site, Siddhartha Arts Foundation and Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation (DBF), with further support of Wellington and Virginia Sun Yee Trust, was going to take place.
A precursor to the Kathmandu Triennale (KT-2077), Garden of 10 Season engaged 40 international artists, aiming to investigate identity, cultural hegemonies and the politics of material. The exhibit aimed to connect different developments in the art scene in the South Asian region, from paubha painting in Nepal to ink in East Asia and barkcloth in the Pacific. The show discussed appropriate frameworks of understanding and bringing together these multiple aesthetic and cosmological lineages active today.
Citra Sasmita, Timur Merah Project II; The Harbor of Restless Spirits, 2019, Ink on leather, turmeric powder © Marvin Systermans / Raisa Galofre
Opening of Garden of Ten Seasons at Savvy Contemporary, 2022, with Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Aqui Thami, Sheelasha Rajbhandari, Cosmin Costinaș, Hit Man Gurung, Elena Agudio, Karan Shrestha and Durjoy Rahman © Raisa Galofre
Front: Sainchi Phulkari Textile, late 19th century Back: Mary Dhapalany, Untitled, 2018, Pandanus mat © Raisa Galofre
A selection of amulet clothes, mid-20th century–2021 © Marvin Systermans / Raisa Galofre People looking at art on golden walls in a gallery Installation view of Garden of Ten Seasons at Savvy Contemporary, 2022 © Raisa Galofre
A selection of amulet clothes, mid-20th century–2021 © Marvin Systermans / Raisa Galofre
Find out more: savvy-contemporary.com
This article was published in association with the Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation
