Born in 1974 and living and working in Mumbai, India, internationally acclaimed artist Jitish Kallat presented his landmark solo exhibition, Public Notice 3, at the Art Institute of Chicago on 11 September 2010. This site-specific work brought together two events: the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon and the First World Parliament of Religions which took place on 11 September 1893 in what is now the Art Institute of Chicago building. The basis of Public Notice 3 was an inaugural speech delivered by Swami Vivekananda at the Parliament calling for an end to fanaticism and a respectful recognition of all traditions of belief through universal tolerance. In 2011, Kallat presented Fieldnotes: Tomorrow Was Here Yesterday, an important project, curated by Dr Tasneem Mehta, exploring the history and architecture of the Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Mumbai, one of the oldest museums in India.
Following the reflective nature of Kallat's recent projects, his exhibition at the Potter Museum of Art was conceived as an evolving narrative and an experiment of multiple interventions across several spaces within the Museum. During the course of six months, from October 2012 to April 2013, some works appeared for a few days, while others remained on display from the beginning and until the end of the exhibition. Still others awaited conception when the departure of interventions made space for them as part of an evolving entry and exit of ideas. Chance, contingency and contagion each played a key role in the development of this shape-shifting project. One utterance infected another so that procreating possibilities gave rise to a tentative, evolving, dispersed and inconclusive oration in several parts of the museum.
Jitish Kallat's work has been exhibited at Australian museums and institutions including the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney), the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane), and Gallery 4A (Sydney). Kallat has also held two solo exhibitions In Australia: at Gallery Barry Keldoulis (Sydney, 2006) and at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (Sydney, 2009).
Curated by Bala Starr, Andrew Jamieson and Natalie King.
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