Exhibition Details
Throughout her practice, New Delhi-based photographer Gauri Gill (b. 1970) has followed individuals on the periphery—indigenous people, subordinate castes, small farmers, nomads, and laborers. Her work defies the media’s simplistic depictions of their plight by uncovering the intricacies of their daily lives, “things that are familiar and therefore not exotic, but never ordinary.”
Additional Details
Looking for Ourselves continues this ethos, seeking to understand South Asian immigrants’ search for their own American identity. The photographs that make up The Americans, 2000–2007 reveal the discoveries of Gill’s seven-year journey from rural towns to metropolitan cities around the United States.
Location
Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery
Lenfest Center for the Arts
615 West 129th Street
New York, NY 10027
Image: Gauri Gill,”Indian grocery store in Queens, New York 2004,” detail, from “The Americans, 2000-2007.” / courtesy of Wallach Art Gallery