○ Host: Clayarch Gimhae Museum

○ Location: Clayarch Gimhae Museum – Dome House

○ Period: October 7, 2023 (Saturday) – February 25, 2024 (Sunday)

○ Artists: Aarti Vir, Ray Meeker, Mudita Bhandari, Shirley Bhatnagar & Pallavi Arora, L.N. Tallur, Keshari Nandan Prasad, Trupti Patel, P R Daroz, Dipalee Daroz, Neha Kudchadkar, Ela Mukherjee, Reyaz Badaruddin, Manjunath Kamath, Madhur Sen, Adil Writer, Supriya Menon Meneghetti, Shampa Shah

○ Sponsor: Indian Embassy, Seoul / ICCR in Republic of Korea / InKo Centre
○ Curator: Kristine Michael

India is a site where the past and present intersect in fragmented refractions. We live in a space where there are worlds together revealing the hidden connections and contradictions and worlds apart, that anticipate the future which we are moving towards with lightning speed aided by technology and globalization. This exhibition shows artistic engagement that ties in the historical past and present with specific body of works through the lens of the artists’ own lived experience or collective cultural memory. This serves as a source of inspiration in both visual and material ways in order to make visible traces of the past, often lost, displaced or counter to the dominant narratives. Ceramics in India itself is often considered the ‘unarchived’ and ‘unrecorded’ in modernism, the forgotten primary material in the advent of new materials and technology, the marginalized narrative of an entire hereditary craft in the colonial categorisation of fine art versus craft.
 
The artists in ‘Multiple Realities’ each reflect on their use of the medium and their own practice from the perspective of ceramics in the 21st century not as a static entity, but one that is in a constant state of flux or transformation. Their works are not simply a question of preserving the past, but instead a challenge to rethink and reimagine the role of ceramics in shaping the cultural memory and history in the future. The voices of artistic practice seen here is defined by the past, represented in the present and anticipate the future.
 
Curator Kristine Michael