Left: Rina Banerjee, "Upon civilizing home an absurd and foreign fruit grew ripened, made food for the others, grew snout, tail and appendage like no other," 2010, mixed media, 40 x 30 x 40. Right: Rina Banerjee, "Take me, Take me . . . to the Palace of Love," 2003 (detail), mixed media, 13 x 13 x 22
Rina Banerjee's iridescent sculptural installations--full of silky fabric, feathers, beads, and tiny, tinkling shells--as well as fragile drawings of birds, beasts, and floating demigods, are about journeys, real and imagined. Her offerings weave their way around ancient Asian artifacts in "Chimeras of India and the West," her latest exhibition, which is on view at the Musée Guimet in Paris until September 26.
