The renowned Swiss artist and performer Nesa Gschwend is dedicating her latest project to the women of India. She has spent the past months since July 2009 in Varanasi, India, sponsored by the Cultural Council of Swiss Cities. Her visit will conclude in December, and she has been invited by the India Habitat Centre in Delhi, with the support of the Embassy of Switzerland in India, to show her artwork to a wider Indian audience before returning to Switzerland.
Her installation and performance with objects, videos and drawings will be displayed from 25 to 30 November 2009 at the Experimental Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre in New Delhi.
Nesa Gschwend's work focuses on the situation of women of all walks of life in India: low and high caste, poor and rich, young and old. She develops a performance, records it on video, and weaves a series of objects using fabrics that have been worn by these women: red saris. She transforms them into long red strings, and runs them through her hands – a gesture connecting her with the women she encountered during her stay, and her expression of solidarity with all women of India in search of empowerment.
Thomas Imboden, CrossCulture
Her installation and performance with objects, videos and drawings will be displayed from 25 to 30 November 2009 at the Experimental Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre in New Delhi.
Nesa Gschwend's work focuses on the situation of women of all walks of life in India: low and high caste, poor and rich, young and old. She develops a performance, records it on video, and weaves a series of objects using fabrics that have been worn by these women: red saris. She transforms them into long red strings, and runs them through her hands – a gesture connecting her with the women she encountered during her stay, and her expression of solidarity with all women of India in search of empowerment.
Thomas Imboden, CrossCulture
