Sunday, December 9, 2007

Monali Meher

Photo Credit: Ivo Gormley. "Between the Familiar/ Unfamiliar, the Home and Heart, Beats a Golden Kiss”
A 2 hour performance at Tate Modern, Idea & object wings, Level 5, Saturday Live Mumbai, sept. 2006.



Biography
Monali Meher, born in 1969, Pune. Graduated B.F.A. in painting from Sir J.J. School of Arts, Mumbai,1990. In 1998 she received ‘Unesco -Aschberg’ Residency in Vienna by Federal Chancellery for the Arts and Science researched the time and space factor, focus on process of decay, felt immense necessity to work with her own body, emotions as tool in public. In 1998 her first performance,”Reflect, A personal window display”, Jehangir art gallery in Mumbai with the statement “Nothing is permanent & it’s a nature’s law”.
In 2000-’01, accepted in Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, funded by Dutch Ministry foreign Affairs & Nuffic, Huygens grant, Amsterdam for research residency. Her work has been published in books: Student Body by Marina Abramovic, Shifting Map, RAIN project by RABK, Third Text, “Love & Death”, Egon Schiele catalogue, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, “Cleaning the house”, NMAC foundation, Spain.
In 2006 Sep. she performed at Tate modern museum, London in Mapping Mumbai event & Dadao international performance festival in Beijing, China, Sinop Biennale Turkey.
In 2007, National review on live art, Glasgow. For last 9 years she has been working with performances, video, photography, Installations. Since year 2000, living and working in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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