| FallingOctober 19, 2006- November 25, 2006
British artist Neeta Madahar will have her second exhibition with the
gallery featuring a new series of five photographs and a video
projection. These works feature countless sycamore seeds spinning
towards the viewer, seemingly without origin or destination. In the
video the seeds fall from a blue cloud flecked sky: their descent is
slowed to a dreamlike pace. The photographs, which are intended to
be seen in an omni-directional manner, represent the leaves against a
variety of backgrounds, and the final image brings the viewer back
to earth. The title Falling refers to the literal falling of the seeds but
Madahar also uses it to allude to the loss of control. The experience
combines childlike wonder and adult anxiety.
This new project follows her project Sustenance in which she photographed birds feeding on her
balcony. Falling and Sustenance have been combined in a beautiful catalog entitled Nature Studies
published by Photoworks in the UK who jointly sponsored her film along with inVIA (Institute of
International Visual Arts) in London.
Her work is already in a number of public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the
Nelson Atkins and the Kemper in Kansas, the Fogg Art Museum and the DeCordova in Masachusetts.
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