Huma Bhabha Met Roof

The roof garden commission.

Huma bhabha met roof.

Gerald cantor roof garden. Bhabha created a site specific work titled we come in peace for the roof garden at the metropolitan museum of art 2018. Huma bhabha we come in peace will be on view from april 17 through october 28 2018 weather permitting. Your health is our top priority.

The roof garden commission series was established in 2013 by the department of modern and contemporary art. Accompanied by a catalogue. Huma bhabha born 1962 karachi pakistan has been selected to create a site specific installation for the met s iris and b. One imagines that when the metropolitan museum of art selected huma bhabha for its cantor roof garden commission the institution did so because the artist s concerns chime so eloquently with the issues of our times.

Gerald cantor roof garden in new york city. Using found materials and the detritus of everyday life she creates haunting human figures that hover between abstraction and figuration monumentality and entropy. Titled we come in peace the commission marks the museum s sixth site specific installation and will be on view through oct. The series of site specific commissions on the iris and b.

I like to think of civilization as a form of evolution or devolution from the beginning up to now. How to visit safely. Last week huma bhabha s roof garden commission opened at the metropolitan museum of art s iris and b. Drama on the deck.

But the combination of the two on the met roof creates a dialogue and a. The taller of the figures an ambiguously sexed 12 foot tall body titled we come in peace suggests a benevolent many headed visitor from another planet. Share print the roof garden commission 2018. Bhabha s work addresses themes of colonialism war displacement and memories of place.

In this video artist huma bhabha and. The aldrich contemporary art museum in ridgefield connecticut awarded its 2008 emerging artist award to bhabha. Artist huma bhabha born 1962 karachi pakistan has been selected to create a site specific installation for the met s iris and b. Gerald cantor roof garden has recently featured work by adrián villar rojas 2017 huma bhabha 2018 and most recently alicja kwade 2019.

The met cloisters opens september 12. 05 10 posted on april 13th 2018. Huma bhabha alongside her foam model left and her in process bronze at the workshop art fabrication foundry in kingston new york. The artist huma bhabha s installation for the metropolitan museum of art s roof garden opening tuesday is we come in peace the title comes from the day the earth stood.