On May 8th at 7:30 pm join us for an informal evening to meet and exchange ideas and experiences with Rekha Sameer: a site-specific conceptual artist from Mumbai, India, currently living and working in the UK.
The event is part of Dare-Zine magazine’s residency programme in Veliko Tarnovo, hosted by TaM! Rekha is one of the eight participants in the programme and is eager to share about her path as an artist, and her work in the field of site-specific art. She’s been creating and collaborating with authors in various contexts, and has held lectures / talks in UK, India and Brazil.
The event welcomes art students and is also open to the general public, interested in the subject.
Rekha Sameer (rekhasameer.co.uk) is originally from Mumbai, India, currently living in the UK. She’s completed her BA and MA in Fine Art at Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design, London. She also holds an MA in International Politics and a PGCE in Learning and Teaching at Higher Education through HEA, England. Rekha is a site specific conceptual artist who works with multiple mediums, including CCTV cameras, video, sound, clay and fabrics. The majority of her artworks and installations are based on social issues and stories of everyday life in the community. The art objects she creates are aesthetically simple but conceptually and experientially complex. As an artist, she attaches significance to having original experiences on the site.
In her words,
“The simple reason the art form exists is to act as conduit between the artist and the viewer. Once the link is established, a cyclical relationship becomes activated between the artist, art-object and the viewer. The site specific installations also offer the viewer a new perspective and fresh insight into their everyday existence. Art, for me, comes from, and is for the site. I would like to reimagine and retell local stories that are conceptually unique to the site and universal in their aesthetic language.”