True Stories

This artwork featured in Shakti (2013).

These works were made in response to the Sir Benjamin Stone (1838-1914) archive of photographs located at Birmingham Library. Parmar’s sensitive re-contextualisation of his works brings forward the captioning (often written on the back of the images) written on behalf of the subject by Stone or archivists.  Strategically positioned in the Museum, these contemporary works comment upon the nature of ‘ethnographic’ collections and how they inform histories.

Image: Bharti Parmar, True Stories, Photographic decal and silkscreen print on paper, 2003. Image courtesy the artist. 

 

About the artist

Bharti Parmar

Bharti Parmar exhibited in Shakti, Kedleston Hall (National Trust), 2014.

 

Image: Bharti Parmar, My Virtual Daughter: Indian girl. Italian paper, Pakistani silk Silkscreen print, embroidered silk thread. Image courtesy Meadow Arts.