Kitchen near Mbalawala, Tanzania
August, 2017
20 x 13 inches
Archival pigment print from digital negative
The SAS Gallery at St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School will open the 2019-20 gallery season with photographs by Pradip Malde. Mr. Malde’s show Our Own Hungers: Photographs of Kitchens will be in the SAS Gallery through Sept. 30, with a public artist’s reception on Thursday, Sept. 5, 4-6 p.m.
Review for the exhibit:
Mr. Malde’s masterful photographs depict kitchens from Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, and Tanzania. As Ms. Malde explains, “Kitchens are the center of any home and can present indicators of economic and social position.” These photographs are both lush and starkly beautiful. They honor the families whose nourishment grows from these kitchens, and yet they point to the injustices of systematic poverty within their communities. The work in this show invites the viewer to contemplate this disparity. St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School Gallery is delighted to offer the first public viewing of this new and on-going body of work that Mr. Malde began in 2010.
Mr. Malde is a photographer and professor at the University of the South, Sewanee. Much of his work considers the experience of loss and how it serves as a catalyst for regeneration. He is currently working in rural communities in Haiti, Tanzania, and Tennessee, designing models for community development through photography. His works are held in the collections of the Museum of the Art Institute, Chicago; Princeton University Museum; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Yale University Museum; and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, among others. He was won many awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship for the Creative Arts in 2018.
Mr. Malde was born in Arusha, Tanzania in 1957. His parents were the children of Indians who emigrated to East Africa, and after having established a privileged life in Tanzania, fled from the turmoil that spread through that region in the 1970s. Concerned about loss and belonging since then, he has come to think of artifacts as membranes, where what may be explicit and immutable begins to lead us into the realms of memory and meaning, and ultimately, understanding the experiences of others.
SAS Gallery Hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.–3 p.m., and by appointment. Contact the gallery at sasgallery@sasweb.org for more information.
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