Location: Upper Level Galleries
January 18 – May 17, 2025
Missouri artist Priya Kambli was born in India and currently works as Professor of Art at Truman State University. She uses photography and performance as a way of understanding how time, place, and selfhood can be transformed by the experience of immigration.
House of Idols presents a selection of works from Kambli’s newest project, Devhara. In Hinduism, a devhara is a home altar where sacred objects are kept. Kambli’s Devhara works center on the objects her deceased mother used in daily worship. Using different photographic processes, she documents the items in arrangements that suggest their varied uses and resonances. The works offer a poignant exploration of memory, mourning, identity, and the overlap between the sacred and the secular.
Priya Kambli, Objects of Mourning, from Devhara, 2023. Silver gelatin prints (photogram, lumen).
