Thursday, May 15, 2014

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Press Release - THIS COUNTRY IS YOURS at Nepali Art Council


PRESS RELEASE
Thursday, 15 May 2014

THIS COUNTRY IS YOURS Opens at Nepal Art Council

A two-week multimedia exhibition for inclusive democracy by Toronto-based Nepali photographer Surendra Lawoti titled THIS COUNTRY IS YOURS opened at Nepal Art Council today. 
THIS COUNTRY IS YOURS takes Kathmandu as the geographic setting during the historic process of writing Nepal’s new constitution. A second Constituent Assembly has been elected to write the constitution by 2017. During this constitution writing process, the exhibition focuses on activists of six social and political movements that include women, indigenous nationalities, Dalits, Madhesis, Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Intersex community, and religious minorities. 

The exhibition aims to provide a voice amid the tremendous representational deficit faced by these groups in Nepal’s legislature, polity, judiciary, bureaucracy, mainstream political party leadership, security sectors, intelligentsia, and media. By highlighting the activists of the six groups, the exhibition invites a discourse, and encourages equitable representation in Nepal’s constitutional and democratization process.

“Lot has happened in Nepal in the last twenty-five years. I wanted to make a body of work of contemporary Nepal that was socially, politically and visually engaged. “ says Lawoti about this body of work.  

The exhibition will feature a series of programs including a screening of the film “Sweat Drenched Land” by Arun Pradhan on Friday, 16th May at 5:30pm, a gallery walk-through led by the photographer on Saturday, 17th May at 3:00pm, a panel discussion on “Visual Representations of Marginalized Groups or Lack There of” on Thursday, 22nd May at 4:00pm, an Artist Talk by the photographer on Sunday, 25th May at 4:00pm, and Portfolio Reviews on Saturday, 31st May.

Surendra Lawoti was born in Panchther in 1972. He received his MFA in Photography from Massachusetts College of Art and Design (2005) in Boston, USA. He now lives in Toronto, Canada, where he teaches Photography as an Adjunct Professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design University. His work has been exhibited internationally including Gallery 44 and Harbourfront Centre in Toronto; Les Territoires in Montreal; O’Hare International Airport in Chicago; Gallery Kayafas and Tufts University Gallery in Boston; Nepal Association of Fine Arts in Kathmandu; the Goethe-Institut in New Delhi; and Galeria Ateneo Porfirio Barba Jacob in Medellín, Colombia.  

THIS COUNTRY IS YOURS is on view at Nepal Art Council from 16 May – 1 June 2014 from 11am – 7pm every day.  

For further information, please email mail@photocircle.com.np

Photo: Shikhar Bhattarai