Rita Banerjee is displaying a new work at the Smithsonian Museum's Sackler Gallery Pavilion in Washington, DC, through June 2014. Titled " A world lost: after the original island, single land mass fractured, after populations migrated, after pollution revealed itself and as cultural locations once separated merged, after the splitting of Adam and Eve, of race black and white, of culture East and West, after animals diminished, after the seas’ corals did exterminate, after this and at last imagine water evaporated...this after Columbus found it we lost it imagine this," the assemblage combines natural and manmade ephemera to create a decorative and haunting sculptural installation.
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Museum, 1050 Independence Ave. SW, Washington, DC
