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Huma Bhabha: They Live

Institution
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Grant Cycle
Spring 2018
Amount
$100,000
Type of Grant
Exhibition Support

Since the early 1990s, Huma Bhabha (born 1962 in Karachi) has developed a distinct visual vocabulary that draws upon a wide variety of influences, including horror movies, science fiction, ancient artifacts, religious reliquary, and modernist sculpture. The largest survey of the artist’s work to date, Huma Bhabha: They Live encompasses sculpture, drawing, and photography, with a special focus on Bhabha’s engagement with the human figure. Best known for her sculptures, Bhabha uses a diverse array of natural, industrial, and found materials to make compelling works that engage the arts and histories of diverse cultures. Her work transcends a singular time and place, instead creating an exploration of what she describes as the “eternal concerns” found across all cultures: war, colonialism, displacement, and memories of home. Huma Bhabha: They Live also includes drawings, photographs, and prints spanning the past two decades, as well as new works made on the occasion of this exhibition.


Installation view, Huma Bhabha: They Live, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2019. Photo by Charles Mayer Photography. 
Installation view, Huma Bhabha: They Live, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2019. Photo by Charles Mayer Photography. 
Huma Bhabha, Benaam, 2018. Installation view, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2019. Painted and patinated bronze, overall: 55 × 58 × 180 in. (139.7 × 147.3 × 457.2 cm). Photo by Charles Mayer Photography. 
Installation view, Huma Bhabha: They Live, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2019. Photo by Charles Mayer Photography. 
Installation view, Huma Bhabha: They Live, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2019. Photo by Charles Mayer Photography. 
Installation view, Huma Bhabha: They Live, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2019. Photo by Charles Mayer Photography. 
Installation view, Huma Bhabha: They Live, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2019. Photo by Charles Mayer Photography. 
Installation view, Huma Bhabha: They Live, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2019. Photo by Charles Mayer Photography. 
Installation view, Huma Bhabha: They Live, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2019. Photo by Charles Mayer Photography. 
1986

Warhol painted more than 100 works related to Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper, which some have read as complex reckoning of his homosexuality, Catholicism, and mortality in response to witnessing AIDS devastate the gay community.

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