RANU MUKHERJEE: SHADOWTIME

Shadowtime, 2021 / ISBN 978-0-9795141-6-6

This 124-page book presents an account of Mukherjee’s work over the last decade. The themes and concerns that pulse with vibrant urgency throughout her work—from colonial legacies to migratory journeys, from environmental catastrophes to utopian possibilities, from the extraction of resources to the preservation of memory and the fulfillment of human potential—are on full display in all their depth and brightness. The effect, as Wendi Norris writes in her introduction, is like reading a love letter from the artist to a globally shared (and very uncertain) future.

At the center of Shadowtime are more than sixty full-color reproductions of Mukherjee’s paintings, film stills, and installations. Accompanying these are a comprehensive essay by Jodi Throckmorton, curator of contemporary art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the transcript of a discussion the gallery staged between the artist and award-winning writer Amitav Ghosh. Shadowtime is being released in concert with an artist book signing and presentation by Gallery Wendi Norris of Mukherjee’s work at The Armory Show 2021 in New York City.

The book is designed by Bob Aufuldish (San Francisco) and published by Gallery Wendi Norris.  Order a copy