Bharti Kher: Sketchbooks and Diaries

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Bharti Kher, 2013 Artist-in-Residence at the Gardner Museum, was enriched and recharged by spending time thinking and living amongst the Museum’s extraordinary building and art treasures. The focus of her new show, Bharti Kher: Sketchbooks and Diaries, is a series of drawings and notebooks Kher made during that time. The drawings are very tactile, often provocative, and charged with humor and a capriciousness that is smart and mischievous at the same time. They reflect on gender and motherhood, anatomy, and the physiology of pregnancy. They speak of empathy and love while investigating the enigmatic paradoxes and ambiguities of what it means to be human.

Bharti Kher: Sketchbooks and Diaries will be on exhibit at The Gardner Museum through Sept. 10, 2018