Neeta Madahar was born in 1966 and lives in the UK. In 2003 she received her
MFA from the Museum School at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Her thesis project
entitled "Sustenance" gained immediate interest and was shown at the Arles
Festival curated by Martin Parr in 2005, followed by shows in Boston, London,
and Germany. Madahar has said of this project
It is around the concept of 'home' and the intangible qualities associated with dwelling that many of my ideas converge: familiarity and strangeness, belonging and migration, prolonged routine and repetition. 'Sustenance' examines these complexities within the domestic environment. Here, various species of birds came to feed at the apartment balcony of my home in Framingham, Massachusetts and became the subject of exploration, with their activities documented using a large-format camera.
The Sustenance photographs attempt to articulate that revelatory experiences, both subtle and dramatic, can occur through obsessive concentration on a task. "
Madahar's second project entitled Falling consists of both still and video images of the Sycamore leaf. It taps into associations with childhood, and dreamlike states of the imagination. With her ongoing interest in the play between nature and artifice she has created Cosmoses, a series of unique photograms recording floral origami forms.
It is around the concept of 'home' and the intangible qualities associated with dwelling that many of my ideas converge: familiarity and strangeness, belonging and migration, prolonged routine and repetition. 'Sustenance' examines these complexities within the domestic environment. Here, various species of birds came to feed at the apartment balcony of my home in Framingham, Massachusetts and became the subject of exploration, with their activities documented using a large-format camera.
The Sustenance photographs attempt to articulate that revelatory experiences, both subtle and dramatic, can occur through obsessive concentration on a task. "
Madahar's second project entitled Falling consists of both still and video images of the Sycamore leaf. It taps into associations with childhood, and dreamlike states of the imagination. With her ongoing interest in the play between nature and artifice she has created Cosmoses, a series of unique photograms recording floral origami forms.
Cosmoses 2005-2007 [view
images]
Falling 2005 [view
images]
Sustenance 2003 [view
images]