We are pleased to present “Are My Hands Clean?,” #RajkamalKahlon’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, opening Friday, January 10 at 390 Broadway, 2nd floor.
Kahlon’s artistic work builds on twenty years of extensive research into drawing and painting as sites of political resistance. In this exhibition, Kahlon brings together three bodies of work that incorporate pages ripped from controversial early 20th century German anthropological and scientific books. Overlaying enlarged photographs of anonymous women from within these texts, Kahlon hand-colors her surfaces in fields of vibrant hues before adorning her subjects in garments and accessories inspired by histories of fashion, radical feminists, and Third World armed revolutionaries. Through this process of material and historical layering, Kahlon recuperates humanity for these unnamed women and, in doing so, “talks back”—to the original authors, to the discipline of anthropology, to Western knowledge production, and to U.S. imperial violence.
“Are My Hands Clean?” will be on view January 10 - February 15, 2025 at 390 Broadway, 2nd floor.
📷: Rajkamal Kahlon, “Solidarity Forever: Between Havana, Bandung and Belgrade (from “Do You Know Our Names?”),” 2024, mixed media on archival photo-rag paper, 33 1/8 x 46 7/8 ins.