Travels in a New world and Paradise lost from idea to exhibition- Mohini Chandra- Divisions within society; looking at racism and hierarchy between cultures.
- As part of this she was also looking at family photographs
How is photography used to form a different sense of identity between different cultures?
- Cultural appropriation
- She used 'tea chests' within her exhibition which she printed her images onto. The thing that she liked most about this was that it added to the exhibition with the stamps and markings that these boxes had on them, dependent on where the tea had come from.
What is not shown within the image?
- This was something that she was doing within her own working, by fading images in the dark room.
- Families would display photographs of family members on their walls- almost like creating an exhibition without realising it.
- Album Pacifica- was a project that she carried out where by she took pictures of the back of the photographs that her family had had taken. This project was about being observant , trying to image the image without actually seeing it.
- She also carried out a series where she would take old fashioned family photos that included her father and would colour him in different colours/patterns that would make him almost invisible. Because he has passed away, this was meant to give the sense of absence.
- Australia council- artists grant- Fiji
- Asia link residency in India
- Forty ships production still
She went on to do another project where she would put images of India and images of Fiji side by side so that you weren't able to tell where you were.
More recent work:
- Australia council residency in Paris- Mus'ee duquai Branly
- Abstraction is something that she is drawn to within her work, taking pictures with a blurred focus, allowing you to still see certain details, whilst also not being too obvious
- Poste Restante- project in Newcastle - taking x-rays of individuals and scanning objects from each individual onto the x-ray image
- This form of installation was done using super 8 film
- Other projects include flow and presence
- Current project- Forty ships (2)
- Southbank photo show 1994 Mohini won the prize for her work 'Travels in a New world 2- at the time she had only just graduated from her degree.