Bari Kumar: Remembering the Future

LACMA presents Bari Kumar: Remembering the Future, on view at LACMA’s  satellite gallery in Charles White Elementary School in MacArthur Park through June 13. The exhibition explores the work of Los Angeles–based contemporary artist Bari Kumar through 10 original works by the artist, including oil paintings and cloth constructions that explore themes of fragmentation, the human body, and iconography from the East and the West. Kumar's work will be presented alongside ancient objects from LACMA's South and Southeast Asian Art collection dating from the ninth through the early 20th century. Additionally, a new ephemeral work, created collaboratively between Charles White Elementary School students and the artist, will be on view. Together the group will produce a rangoli, a traditional Indian art form created with colored powder. The rangoli is created for celebratory occasions, such as special holidays, and is usually found at the entrance of a home or courtyard.  The school’s rangoli will be created, erased, then re-created by students throughout the duration of the exhibition. Additionally, the rangoli will periodically be outside of the gallery to welcome the community into the exhibition.