At T.A.J. Residency & SKE Projects on Saturday, talks by artists Zille Homma Hamid and Renuka Rajiv.
ZILLE HOMMA HAMID will give a overview of the works from the last 19 years as a part of the collective Honey Suckle Company and as an individual artist.
In her work, Hamid deals with themes such as identity, culture and history, while exploring a variety of different arts disciplines in a variety of media. A profound influence on Hamid's work was the approach of the Bauhaus school which reunited the areas of art and design. Textile materials or related topics are concepts in her works, which she has tackled as a subject and a source of inspiration. Her interest in textile began at an early age when she understood that there is a conjunction between cloth and social identity, that it is possible to express oneself in clothing and that cloth can protect by providing information about the maker and wearer. Having grown up with two different cultural identities she merges both the German and Pakistani aesthetic languages in her work.
Zille Homma Hamid Is a German–born Pakistani visual artist and designer based in Berlin. She has been a member of the artist collective "Honey Suckle Company" since 1997. Parallel to fine arts, Hamid has also been running a clothing label from 2004-2010. Her artistic work has been traveling and shown in various African countries like Centre d’art Contemporain Douala-Cameroon; Center for Contemporary Art (CCA), Lagos-Nigeria; Nubuke Foundation Accra-Ghana; Fortaleza Maputo, Mozambique; Bagfactory, Johannesburg-South Africa and at the Göteborg Biennale in Sweden.
Honey Suckle Company is an artist group of 5-12 Members based in Berlin since 1994. The Group has worked on various installations with all kind of materials and technical forms, mostly between 1995 and 2007 in self-organised happenings as well as international institutions like Berlin Biennale, P.S1 New york and Kunsthalle Basel. Each of its members come from a different artistic domain but the concepts are resolved in cooperation with each other and ideas converge into a singular output, resulting in refusal of individual authorship. The projects by the Honey-Suckle Company include installation, anti-fashion, new music, photography, video and dance performance.
RENUKA RAJIV will present work from the last few years, with a focus on her hand-drawn books.
Renuka has a background in printmaking and she enjoys making things by hand. Her work is largely drawing and incorporates pen, ink, text, collage, installation, stitching, zines etc. It is a priority for the work to be personal and it flits between observation and imagination, incorporating a kind of structural or narrative element to house a number of images together. It often tends towards excessiveness.
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