Remembering being there
Apr 10, 2021by Rosalyn D`Mello Apr 10, 2021
Encountering a video portrait of Nikhil Chopra on Art Dubai’s website brought back memories and incited my curiosity about what he’s currently up to.
Rosalyn (she/her) is an author, art critic, columnist, researcher, lecturer and editor. She is an Ocean Fellowship 2021 Mentor, and was an evaluator for the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant 2020. She is a recipient of the India Foundation for the Arts research grant (2019-2020) which has been supporting her writing based on her visits to South Asian artists' studios, the subject of her forthcoming book for Oxford University Press. She writes a weekly feminist column for mid-day and is a regular contributor to OPEN.
In the name of the mother
Mar 25, 2021by Rosalyn D`Mello Mar 25, 2021
Feminist artistic, critical and philosophical discourses situate fermentation as a queer site for contamination, collaboration, and transformation.
Notes on Rejection
Mar 10, 2021by Rosalyn D`Mello Mar 10, 2021
A huge part of survival and sustenance in the global artworld involves continued fragility and frugality while processing the failure of non-acceptance.
Preparatory sketches in defence of decorative art
Feb 26, 2021by Rosalyn D`Mello Feb 26, 2021
The continued use of hierarchised art language contributes to the further invalidation of already marginalised art forms.
The art of the housewife
Feb 09, 2021by Rosalyn D`Mello Feb 09, 2021
Canonical art history has invalidated and exiled from its discourse a critical figure upon whose laborious back multiple worlds were held in place.
The feminist counter-apocalypse
Jan 25, 2021by Rosalyn D`Mello Jan 25, 2021
A recurring motif in a mural by Indian artist Nilima Sheikh prophesies the end of man.
Art or Children?
Jan 12, 2021by Rosalyn D`Mello Jan 12, 2021
When motherhood remains taboo in a non-inclusive art world, can artists dare to embrace their maternal bodies?
We need to talk about Art Critics
Dec 26, 2020by Rosalyn D`Mello Dec 26, 2020
While the pandemic has put the art world under financial strain, art criticism remains among an under-discussed realm in terms of the new conditions under which it must be performed.
STIR interviews Theaster Gates discussing his immersive practice and the sacred
Dec 09, 2020by Rosalyn D`Mello Dec 09, 2020
Theaster Gates’ ongoing solo, Black Vessel, at gallery Gagosian in New York harnesses Black spirituality practices and traditions to sacralise Black archives.
Shadow Libraries
Nov 27, 2020by Rosalyn D`Mello Nov 27, 2020
Contemporary artists remind us that libraries are storehouses of ‘civilisational’ knowledge premised on exclusion and systemic othering.
Can the curator repair?
Nov 10, 2020by Rosalyn D`Mello Nov 10, 2020
In showcasing the aesthetics of mending, it is contentious for art to be contextualised as insulated from the broken-ness of reality.
The importance of being Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller
Oct 24, 2020by Rosalyn D`Mello Oct 24, 2020
The Viennese photographer boldly went where few photographers dared to go, exploring the inner reaches of female consciousness.
The Freudian Glitch
Oct 07, 2020by Rosalyn D`Mello Oct 07, 2020
Steirischer Herbst’s 2020 edition, Paranoia TV, adopts the screen as a medium of dissemination in a digital, pandemic world, but to what end?
Beyond bread, wine, cars, security and peace
Sep 18, 2020by Rosalyn D`Mello Sep 18, 2020
The debut exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien by its new directors, the Croatian collective, What, How & for Whom (WHW), reveals the inherently classist nature of our desires for peace.
Street-haunting art
Sep 08, 2020by Rosalyn D`Mello Sep 08, 2020
What it means to stumble upon one of artist Gunter Demnig’s ‘Stolperstein’, a 10x10cm memorial to a murdered victim of Nazi oppression.
The secret Library of Babel
Aug 24, 2020by Rosalyn D`Mello Aug 24, 2020
Contemporary artists are boldly aligning their practices within Femmage to make visible lost, stolen, and invisibilised histories of female labour.
The art of making art seen through the lens of serving and consuming food
Aug 10, 2020by Rosalyn D`Mello Aug 10, 2020
What happens when the production or consumption of food lies in the centerpiece of an artwork or performance? Can an artistic focus on feeding lead to a more inclusive society?
Can the artist speak?
Jul 30, 2020by Rosalyn D`Mello Jul 30, 2020
In a post COVID-19 reality, is it possible to foresee outreach initiatives by private galleries that privilege the artist’s subjectivity over jargon-heavy discourse?
Of borders and bodies
Jul 13, 2020by Rosalyn D`Mello Jul 13, 2020
A visit to the Timmelsjoch pass that connects Austria and Italy spurs a meditation on border-specific artworks and their intended viewers.
The secret lives of objects
Jun 27, 2020by Rosalyn D`Mello Jun 27, 2020
Vacating an apartment amid lockdown presents a dilemma about what we can take with us and what we are forced to leave behind.
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The art of making art seen through the lens of serving and consuming food
Aug 10, 2020by Rosalyn D`Mello Aug 10, 2020
What happens when the production or consumption of food lies in the centerpiece of an artwork or performance? Can an artistic focus on feeding lead to a more inclusive society?
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