Room with a View III
Sept 12 - Oct 25
Shelly Bahl

In conjunction with The Chile Exhange
Organised by A Space Gallery


A Room With a View, III, is a continuation of the installations/ interventions that Shelly Bahl developed for the Migrations North/ South Project in Chile in February 2002. Recently, she has been creating faux-domestic spaces that become stages for interactive acts of consumption and storytelling. These sites offer playful and surreal stories of ‘cultural cannibalism’, that refer to old and new forms of colonialism, orientalism, and cultural appropriation.

For this installation Shelly Bahl has been researching European colonial architecture and interior design, and will create a small Neo-Victorian salon/ gallery with a series of photographic prints. The photographs are architectural details of sites of past colonial grandeur, which are now in various stages of decay. The faux-antique wallpapers, furnishings, and photographs are all contemporary re-appropriations of colonial nostalgia.

Biography:
Shelly Bahl is a visual artist based in Toronto and New York City. Her interdisciplinary work has appeared in a number of solo and group exhibitions in North America and internationally. Her current projects include, one-person exhibitions at M.Y. Art Prospects, New York; Khyber Centre For the Arts, Halifax; Gallery 198, London, UK; and Centre A, Vancouver. In the past year, she has also participated in group exhibitions at the India Habitat Centre Gallery, New Delhi, India; Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile; BosePaciaModern Gallery, New York; M.Y. Art Prospects, New York; Centre M.A.I., Montreal; Open Studio, Toronto; and the Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn.