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TARQ is delighted to announce Rah Naqvi’s first solo show, how many songs in a single note? conceptualized by the artist with Curatorial Advisor Shaunak Mahbubani. The artworks in this show, including video installation, tapestry, drawings, paintings, and sculptures, emanate from Naqvi’s brave confrontation of identity-based injustice in the current socio-political landscape. Naqvi juxtaposes dissent with tenderness of family, care and healing in the domestic layout of this exhibition.
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In the multimedia tapestry work Index of Dystopia, Naqvi investigates the possibility of defiance from a distance through vocabulary nurtured by their found family in Amsterdam. Naqvi elaborates, “found family really shapes our resistance in the care we give each other and ways we are able to protect each other.”
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Intrinsic to Naqvi’s practice is their queer identity. Their new paintings feature tender moments of queer intimacy and collective care that nurture energies for continual dissent. Furthermore, the artist questions the very nature of resistance for a queer person whose existence is a continuous act of defiance against normativity. This language of queer defiance extends to the title of the show, which draws from Naqvi’s practice of singing, alluding to the polyphonic nature of love and revolution while cautioning us against the monotony of a choiceless future.
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About the Artist
Rah Naqvi (they/them) is an Indian artist, based in Mumbai/Amsterdam. Their work engages in narratives themed around religious and societal polarisation, centring art and their tool for activism. The materiality and techniques in their work are at play to create familiarity with the viewer, with satire, whimsical props, and softness you are made to believe something joyous awaits.Rah studied Liberal Arts at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai and earned their Bachelor of Textiles from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. They had their first solo exhibition Bashaoor, at Clark House, Mumbai in 2018, followed by their second solo exhibition, Sharam o Haya, at Ame Nue, Hamburg in 2019. In the same year, they were part of a group show with Akinci, titled, Heroines Now, 2019, alongside Melanie Bonajo (NL), Anne Wenzel (DE), Gluklya (Natalie Pershina- Yakimanskaya) (RU/NL), Lungiswa Gqunta (SA).Rah has been part of other group exhibitions namely, Hunger: For Life, Love, Human Contact, Touch, Freedom, Akinci, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2020); Inherited Memory, an online exhibition at TARQ, Mumbai, India (2020); A beast, a god, a line, Para Site, Hong Kong, curated by Para Site Director, Cosmin Costinas. Their work has also been shown at TS1 Yangon, Yangon, Myanmar (June 6 – 22, 2018); Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland (Jul 20 – Oct 7, 2018); Apexart NY सावधान: The Regimes of Truth, curated by Shaunak Mahbubani, New Delhi (2018); Micro subversions Playbook, Conflictorium, Ahmedabad, curated by Avni Sethi and Venkataraman Divakar; and The Exhaustion project, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, curated by Abhijan Toto. They have also shown their work at the Bangkok Art Biennale, MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum in Thailand and Kunsthall Trondheim in Norway.
Rah has been a part of the De Ateliers Residency, Amsterdam in 2019-2021 as well as the Forecast Forum Residency, Berlin in 2018. They were the recipient of 'The Phenomenal She' award in 2019 conferred by the Indian National Bar Association and NID Ford Foundation Grant in 2018.
how many songs from a single note?: Sarah Naqvi
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