Jitish Kallat's preoccupation with the plight of street children and child labourers began in 2005 with the exhibition Humiliation Tax at Chemould Art Gallery. Ecto, a weighed-down tea-boy drinking from a kettle, was part of this exhibition. Covered in black lead, the installation literally leaves a mark on the viewer when touched. "Ecto invokes youthful innocence and the possibilities that therein lie, but made of black lead,...
Jitish Kallat's preoccupation with the plight of street children and child labourers began in 2005 with the exhibition Humiliation Tax at Chemould Art Gallery. Ecto, a weighed-down tea-boy drinking from a kettle, was part of this exhibition. Covered in black lead, the installation literally leaves a mark on the viewer when touched. "Ecto invokes youthful innocence and the possibilities that therein lie, but made of black lead, fibreglass and stainless steel, and its surface covered in graphite, Ecto leaves a mark on any hand that dares touching it, either "affectionately or in sympathy". In Kallat's work... 'you' as a 'viewer' are never bereft of a role in the story, the possibility of contamination to even a bystander being ever present." ("Here After Here": India's Jitish Kallat - artist profi le," Art Radar, 15 February 2017, online)
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Jitish Kallat Ecto
2005
From a limited edition of three
EXHIBITED:The Lie of the Land, Chicago: Walsh Gallery, 3 - 25 September, 2004 (another from the edition)Humiliation Tax, Mumbai: Gallery Chemould, 2005 (another from the edition)Jitish Kallat: Aquasaurus, Sydney: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, 25 October - 20 December 2008 (another from the edition)The Lie of the Land, Chicago: Walsh Gallery, 2004 (another from the edition)Humiliation Tax, Mumbai: Gallery Chemould, 2005 (another from the edition)
Category: Sculpture