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From The Kolkata Brassworks To A New Haven Gallery, Artists Explore The Meaning Of Home
by | Nov 29, 2023 10:19 am
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Amartya De
Brassworks, CPIML Building, Kolkata
The photograph of a brass worker in Kolkata encompasses the weight of history and the immediacy of the present; it’s an image from decades ago, but it’s plausible to believe that there are still people who work metal in similar ways now. The picture is lived in. It carries other senses with it. Maybe the tangy smell of heated metal, the temperature and humidity of the atmosphere. The sounds of a metal shop. And for Amartya De, it’s a connection to where he’s from, a small piece of that larger whole.
De’s photograph is part of“Home,” running now at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art through Jan. 14.
