In The City Of Children (Audiovisual)
2024
Brooklyn, New York
Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.
Ruby Chishti, born in 1963, is a Pakistani-American artist known for her sculpture and installation works. She received her formal education from the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan, and is now based in New York City. Chishti's art is characterized by haunting and enigmatic forms that explore the transformation of fabric from discarded mass-produced clothing into the reconstruction filaments of artistic imagination. She held the position of Critic in Residence at Cornell University, FSAD College of Human Ecology in Ithaca, NY. Her work has been exhibited at the Asia Society Museum, New York; the Queens Museum, Queens, NY; Rossi & Rossi, Hong Kong; Aicon Contemporary, New York; Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi; and Canvas Gallery, Karachi. Her major works have been acquired by Kiran Nadar Museum, in Delhi, and the Qatar Museum. Chishti's work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Art Asia Pacific, and Diacritics, and including in the books Unveiling the Visible and Memory-Metaphor-Mutations by Salima Hashmi and Yashodhara Dalmia; The Eye Still Seeks: Pakistani Contemporary Art by Salima Hashmi and Matand Khosla; A Companion to Textile Culture, ed. Dana Arnold and Jennifer Harris; and Threads of Globalization: Women, Textiles, and Fashion in Asia, ed. Melia Belli Bose.
Joan Mitchell Fellowship, 2024
My exploration revolves around the melding of found garments and social memory, intimately engaging with 'fashion detritus' to spark conversations about the passage of time and collective experiences of love, loss and being human. I dismantle unknown people's clothing, re-figure, and hand-sew layers creating evocative structures that prompt reflections on our emotional and physical connections to architecture, reminiscent of the sedimentation of history and the geological phenomena of ‘deep time' documented in layers of rocks deposited over billions of years.”