Bharti kher

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Bharti Kher 
Title: Right in the middle of it all (detail),
Year: 2008
Medium: Bindis on painted board
Size: 96 1/8 x 72 in

Bharti Kher is an Indian contemporary artist. Her work encompasses painting, sculpture and installation, often incorporating bindis, the popular forehead decoration worn by women in India, in her work.
In 1995 Kher was struck by a woman in a market wearing a ‘sperm’ bindi on her forehead. She asked the woman where it came from and went straight to the store. ‘I walked in and said, “give me all the serpent bindis you have,” which turned out to be a few packages that she stuck in her sketchbook. It turned out to be a supernova moment.’
Since then, Bindis have become Kher’s signature, operating not so much as a central motif as a language that the artist has invented to articulate and animate her themes. Bindis swarm over sculptures endowing them with a cryptic second skin. They are deployed in vivid chromatic constellations to form ‘paintings’ whose abstract patterns relate to the history of western art whilst seeming biological and essential — resembling cellular life viewed under a microscope or the intercourse of oceans and continents viewed from a satellite. Each dot or sperm-like squiggle can be understood as a person, their arrangement en mass mapping demographic movement, the migrations and miscegenation of teeming populaces. Kher created Symphony, an digital artwork about Bindi at 2012.
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