SNEHA SHRESTHA: RITUAL AND DEVOTION

Feburary 1 – April 9

Ritual and Devotion is the artist’s first major solo exhibition that explores the concepts of ritual and devotion beyond the sacred to include the secular. Here, through her immigration journey, Shrestha reflects on what devotion means to her with respect to family, culture, heritage, ancestry, and self, and how acts, such as filling out immigration forms to the actual process of creating her art, can become ritualized. The exhibition features works, including two site-specific ones, that capture the intermingling of the sacred and the secular, and how her immigration journey, its sacrifices, invocations of nostalgia, evolution of identities, and creation of new opportunities, continues to shape the artist’s interpretations of ritual and devotion.

Cantor Art Gallery