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Open Image ModalYoko OnoREMEMBER USInstallation View, "OUR BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS"Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2012Photo by Briana Blasko, © Yoko Ono
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Open Image ModalYoko OnoINDIA SMILESInstallation View, "OUR BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS"Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2012Photo by Briana Blasko, © Yoko Ono The Smile Film concept came in 1967 when Ono declared that she wanted to "make a film which includes a smiling face snap of every human being in the world". More than 40 years hence, this ongoing project is well on its way to becoming a reality. INDIA SMILES gives audiences in Delhi a chance to contribute to this long-sustaining endeavour.
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Open Image ModalYoko OnoMEND PIECEInstallation View, "OUR BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS"Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2012Photo by Briana Blasko, © Yoko Ono
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Open Image ModalYoko Ono25 Instructions for Oslo, read by Yoko Ono and documentations of works from the 1960sInstallation View, "THE SEEDS"Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2012Photo by Briana Blasko, © Yoko Ono
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Open Image ModalYoko Ono & John Lennon, WAR IS OVER (if you want it) and Yoko Ono, Sky TVInstallation View, "THE SEEDS"Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2012Photo by Briana Blasko, © Yoko Ono WAR IS OVER! (if you want it) is an advertising piece made in collaboration with John Lennon that started in 1969 during the Bed-In for Peace event in response to the Vietnam War. This global advertising campaign, which lasted for more than two years, included billboards, postcards, magazine advertising, songs and skywriting in different cities. This project continues to date.Sky TV is a closed circuit video installation where a portable camera provides a live feed of the sky above. This installation, first shown in 1966, was a pioneering work that used the newly launched Portapak technology, also utilised by the Korean artist Nam June Paik. Transmitting the image of the sky in real time, this work is a contemplation of an infinite world and also the sky that shelters us.
(06 of12)
Open Image ModalYoko OnoMEND PIECEInstallation View, "OUR BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS"Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2012Photo by Briana Blasko, © Yoko Ono Mend Piece was first shown at Indica Gallery, London in 1966. In subsequent versions, Ono invited visitors to engage in a 'healing' action by mending broken pieces of ceramic pottery. This meditative moment where one performs such a therapeutic act is a strong symbol in many of the artist's works.
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Open Image ModalHEAL TOGETHERInstallation View, "OUR BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS"Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2012Photo by Briana Blasko, © Yoko Ono HEAL TOGETHER is another participatory project where the visitor partakes in a creative and cathartic process. The audience is invited to mend, suture and stitch a slashed canvas on the wall with colourful threads and cloth patches creating a new collective piece. Ono addresses the issue of violence and the necessity of coming together to heal scars.
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Open Image ModalYoko OnoMY MOMMY IS BEAUTIFULInstallation View, "OUR BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS"Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2012Photo by Briana Blasko, © Yoko Ono A version of this work was first shown at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford in 1997. The piece has been manifested in many different ways since. For India, Ono has chosen the participatory version of MY MOMMY IS BEAUTIFUL, "a tribute to all the Mothers of the World from each of your children". Here the audience is invited to create a memoir of their mother - the empty canvases on the gallery walls are to be filled with personal stories, remembrances and notes that speak of love, pain, and other complex emotions this relationship evokes.
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Open Image ModalYoko Ono,WISH TREESInstallation View, "THE SEEDS"Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2012Photo by Briana Blasko, © Yoko Ono Yoko Ono's work WISH TREES is inspired by the artist's childhood experience of visiting a temple in Japan where she would write a wish on a piece of paper and attach it to a tree branch. The work, which she first did in 1996, has been included in many of her exhibitions around the world in museums and cultural centres. Yoko Ono has travelled the globe asking individuals to write their own hopes and prayers on paper tags. The wishes - currently totalling over a million - will be sent to the IMAGINE PEACE TOWER, a memorial Yoko Ono created for John Lennon in 2007, on the Isle of Videy in Iceland.
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Open Image ModalYoko OnoFilm stills from Erection, Freedom and FLYInstallation View, "THE SEEDS"Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2012Photo by Briana Blasko, © Yoko Ono
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Open Image ModalYoko OnoINDIA MAP PIECEInstallation View, "THE SEEDS"Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2012Photo by Briana Blasko, © Yoko Ono INDIA MAP PIECE relates to Ono's long-sustaining project IMAGINE PEACE. Visitors are invited to stamp "IMAGINE PEACE" on maps placed on the wall of the gallery. For the exhibition in Delhi, various maps of India have been placed on the gallery walls, which visitors can stamp with "IMAGINE PEACE" translated into multiple Indian languages.
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Open Image ModalYoko OnoREMEMBER USInstallation View, "OUR BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS"Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2012Photo by Briana Blasko, © Yoko Ono REMEMBER US, made especially for Yoko Ono's first-ever exhibition in India, focuses on the experiences of women. This work is a further exploration of the installation touch me III that Ono showed at Galerie Lelong in New York in 2008. One floor of the gallery is filled with casts of women's bodies. Audiences are invited to touch them and in the process come to terms with their feelings of compassion, love, empathy, identification, aggression, violence, acceptance, vulnerability and power that this act of touching unleashes in them. REMEMBER US urges audiences to revitalize and rethink a personal connection with the contemporary conditions experienced by women.
