Readytex Artwork Gallery presents BIGI SPIKRI, a gaggle exhibition curated by Sri Irodikromo. In BIGI SPIKRI (massive mirror) Sri highlights the varied cultures and traditions of Suriname, inserting the emphasis on how they’re manifested by means of various kinds of head coverings. The exhibition opens on Thursday October 6, from 7:00 to 9:00pm, at Readytex Artwork Gallery, positioned at 46-48 Maagden Avenue, Paramaribo, Suriname. [See hours below.]
Description: [. . .] In Sri’s seek for a theme for her final curatorial process throughout the ALAKONDRE: A House in Time venture, the main focus as regards to headdress, took form step by step. An necessary issue was the work of visible artist Reinier Asmoredjo, whom she had already chosen as ‘Native Grasp’. In his compositions, ladies with headscarves or angisa usually play a key position, in any case. Visitor artists Peter Holman and Sarojini Lewis indicated very early on, and independently of one another, that they needed to current artworks about respectively the angisa and the standard orhni (veil) of Hindustani ladies. Thus, the selection for the primary theme rapidly grew to become clear. In her personal artwork, Sri herself usually incorporates sleek head items from the Javanese Wajang, Indigenous individuals with their lovely headdress and, fairly usually, ladies in colourful koto and angisa. One other consideration that can’t be ignored these days, is the non-public, cultural or conventional that means that’s hooked up to move coverings and the social dialogue this results in in sure communities around the globe. On this exhibition for instance, the politically and socially vital artist Kurt Nahar reveals work that particularly reacts to this concern.
The third visitor artist in BIGI SPIKRI is Clerence Ranoesetiko. Along with Reinier Asmoredjo, Kurt Nahar and Sri Irodikromo herself, different Readytex Artwork Gallery artists included within the exhibition are: John Lie A Fo, Kenneth Flijders, Package-Ling Tjon Pian Gi, Leonnie van Eert, Miguel Keerveld, René Tosari, Rinaldo Klas, Shaundell Horton and Wilgo Vijfhoven. Their work attests of the necessary position that artists play in vital dialogues and within the visible documentation and preservation of cultural elements and parts which can be in peril of slowly being misplaced.
It’s in that regard, additionally fairly becoming that Sri took her inspiration for the title of the exhibition BIGI SPIKRI from a passage within the lovely e-book Angisa Tori by Christine van Russel-Henar. It describes a vogue present within the late 60s, initiated by the nationalist poet DOBRU to stimulate appreciation for the standard creole gown, the koto. Dobru, a phrase artist who additionally stood on the foundation of the idea of Alakondre, introduced the present below the title Bigi Spikri. “This was a big reference to the Saramacca Avenue, the neighborhood that was identified by this title round 1900. Bigi spikri, massive mirror, took its title from the customized of the ladies who lived within the backyards there, to usually sit outdoors by the road within the afternoons, to critically appraise all passers-by after which frankly touch upon their look.” Along with this excellent piece of historical past, for Sri the title additionally carries a message of self-reflection. “Have a look at your self first, earlier than talking about or judging others.” As a result of within the BIGI SPIKRI of an Alakondre group, everyone seems to be free to indicate him or herself as she or he desires, with or with out hat, cap, scarf or veil. And the way related is that message elsewhere in our world immediately …
You might be most welcome on the opening of BIGI SPIKRI in Readytex Artwork Gallery on Thursday October 6, between 7:00 and 9:00 pm. After this, the exhibition can then be visited from Friday October 7 – Saturday October 29, in the course of the common opening hours of the gallery, from Monday to Friday from 8:00 am – 4:30 pm and on Saturday from 8:30 am – 1:30 pm.
For extra info, see https://readytexartgallery.com/readytex_event/bigi-spikri-reflecting-on-the-cultural-and-social-significance-of-head-coverings/
For extra info on Sri Irodikromo, see https://readytexartgallery.com/readytex_artist/sri-irodikromo/