Index of the Disappeared - Exhibition Documentation
Online photo albums of documentation from recent exhibitions of our collaborative project Index of the Disappeared (2004-07) can be found at the following links. More information on the project can be found here and the web-based component of the project, commissioned by Turbulence in 2004, can be found here.
Full information on our current discussion series, Tracing the Index, can be found here.
1) Text drawn from the Index archive, installed as site-specific, large-scale vinyl lettering, hand-lettering with paint pen on clear vinyl, and also distributed on free postcards (edition of 500 postcards with 25 different texts) in Arabic and English. Version shown at the Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, for the exhibition Spectral Evidence, curated by Steven Lam. January-March 2007.
Images here.
2) Images and text fragments from the Index archive, combined with protest slogans and proverbs circulating in communities connected to the Index, installed as neon signs, site-specific vinyl lettering, and vinyl on Lexan panels in Urdu, Arabic and English in the windows of Exit Art, New York, for the exhibition Sultana's Dream, curated by Jaishri Abichandani. August 2007.
Images here.
3) The Index archive installed as a non-circulating library with reading/writing lounge in the gallery in the UBS corporate headquarters in midtown Manhattan for the exhibition 25 Years Later: Welcome to Art In General, curated by Sofia Hernandez. August-November 2007.
Images here.
Video or audio of the library orientation session led by Chitra and Mariam here.
Index of the Disappeared is a collaboration, ongoing since 2004, between artists Chitra Ganesh and Mariam Ghani.
Recent press:
NY Times
New Yorker
NY Sun
Download press clippings as a 503K PDF
