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Divya Mehra

Divya Mehra (Born 1981) is active/lives in Manitoba / Canada.  Divya Mehra is known for Inflatable sculpture, social issue themes, multi-media.

"The Word Grieves for Millions. An Artist Grieves for One," Exhibition Review, The New York Times Art & Design section, by Brian Boucher, Feb. 16, 2021

We are facing a special challenge in the pandemic era: How do we mourn death at the scale we are witnessing it? In a new exhibition, the Canadian artist Divya Mehra offers a surprising and timely suggestion: big fat emojis.

“The funny things You do” at Night Gallery in Los Angeles (through March 13), includes just one work, but it’s a whopper: Nearly 20-foot-tall inflatable versions of the wave and urn emojis, expressive of a “tsunami of grief”; when the exhibition opened in mid-January, two million had died from the coronavirus.

The mind balks at that number but the show’s evocation of devastation deals partly with Mehra’s mourning of one: her father, Kamal, who died in 2015. He founded Winnipeg’s first North Indian restaurant in the 1970s; it remains a fixture there. The artist, 39, was reticent to talk   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7692 characters.]  Artist bio

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