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India Illuminated in Cuba Street
MEDIA RELEASE
21 October 2010
India Illuminated in Cuba Street
A Wellington artist Meena Kadri is planning to screen 99 images of her India Illuminated projected exhibition onto a shop front in downtown Wellington as part of a range of events celebrating Diwali this year.
The colourful photographs that Kadri took on trips to India will be projected on to the front of a Cuba Street shop for what she calls “a positive urban disruption for celebrating the Diwali Festival of Light in Wellington”.
The India Illuminated projected exhibition will be lighting up Cuba Street from 6pm until late beginning tonight October 21 to Sunday October 24 at the Wakefield Hotel clothing and footwear store, 149 Cuba St, next to the Indian dairy below the Peter McLeavey Gallery.
The projections will be done by Nektar Films, the company that recently handled multi-media production for Rhian Sheehan’s highly successful Standing in Silence performance at Wellington’s Opera House.
Meena Kadri won a Kentucky Fried Chicken colouring competition when she was six years old which set her on a committed path as a visual communicator. She has lectured in Graphic Design and Design for Social Innovation at universities in New Zealand, China and Europe plus two years at the prestigious National Institute of Design in India.
Her artworks have been exhibited internationally including the Like That Only at the Glasgow School of Art, Overlap: Intersections of Desi + Diasporic in Delhi, alongside photographic showings in Mumbai, Rome and Milan.
She currently works as a communication strategist and researcher who explores the intersection of communication, culture and creativity via her consultancy, Random Specific. She writes on India for a number of platforms including New York’s Design Observer.
Examples of images Kadri intends to use can be viewed here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/meanestindian/sets/72157624473511194/
The India Illuminated projected exhibition is supported by the Asia New Zealand Foundation.
The Diwali Festival of Lights
will be on Sunday October 24 from 1pm-10pm at the TSB Bank
Arena. For more information about Diwali events in
Wellington, visit
www.asianz.org.nz.
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