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    Somerset House unveils Jitish Kallat’s “Whorled (Here After Here After Here)” today

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    Today, Somerset House unveils Jitish Kallat’s Whorled (Here After Here After Here), a new courtyard commission by Somerset House and the Mumbai-based artist’s first major public commission in the UK. This striking outdoor installation, over 30 metres in diameter, comprises two intersecting spirals that echo the signage of UK roads and connect the famed neoclassical courtyard of Somerset House to locations across the planet and distant universe.

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    Artist Jitish Kallat beside his work, ‘Whorled (Here After Here After Here)’, on display at Somerset House, London © David Parry, PA

    Whorled (Here After Here After Here) is conceived as a seismic ripple or a galactic whorl, aligned to the Earth’s cardinal north-south directions and spiralling outwards from the centre of the Somerset House courtyard. The work draws upon sacred geometry and alchemical diagrams; like much of Kallat’s work, it interlaces the immediate and the cosmic, the past and present. Two vast scrolls, each 168 metres in length, form interlocking spirals and a continuum of text and symbols follows the visual language of UK motorway signage. As visitors walk through the scrolls, these signs indicate the distance from Somerset House to over 300 locations across the planet and beyond, pointing to celestial bodies, such as the Moon, Mars, and distant stars in the Milky Way.

    Somerset House unveils Jitish Kallats Whorled Here After Here After Here today
    Whorled (Here After Here After Here)’ by Jitish Kallat on display at Somerset House, London (c) David Parry, PA

    As Kallat’s work playfully reorients the courtyard in relation to a myriad of destinations, both terrestrial and celestial, visitors are invited to take pathways through the interlaced spirals. Routes through the work map circular movements through space and time. Visitors encounter a continuous shifting of focus as proximate planetary locations border distant and departed supernovae. Several of the places featured in the work have fallen victim to rising sea levels, while others are known to be under environmental threat of submersion within the next thirty years. These place names, accompanied by warning and hazard symbols, resonate with Somerset House’s own proximity to the River Thames and London’s vulnerability to flooding. With exhibition dates that encompass Earth Day 2023, the cyclical movements through space and non-linear time prompt a reconsideration of our relationship with the planet, its past and imminent future, and the wider cosmos.

    The commission continues the artist’s long-standing critical engagement with ideas of distance and measurement, time and place, and the fundamental incertitude of our location within the cosmos, with Kallat having drawn on imaginary maps connecting the everyday and the cosmic for over 20 years.

    Jitish Kallats Whorled Here After Here After Here
    Whorled (Here After Here After Here)’ by Jitish Kallat on display at Somerset House, London (c) David Parry, PA

    Jitish Kallat has created a specially commissioned flag which can be seen flying on top of Somerset House’s South Wing. Depicted on the flag is the ‘Pulsar Map’, a design which was included on plaques attached to the two Voyager scientific space probes, launched in 1977. The map shows the location of our sun relative to known pulsars, the rapidly spinning remains of dying stars, and is intended as a return address to possible extra-terrestrial intelligences who may discover them.

    This year’s return of Morgan Stanley Lates, a series of evening performances, music, talks and poetry in the courtyard, will see a live activation of Whorled (Here After Here After Here) on Wednesday 19 April 2023.

    Whorled (Here After Here After Here) is curated by Dr Cliff Lauson, Director of Exhibitions, Somerset House. The installation will be on display at The Edmond J. Safra Fountain Court, Somerset House, from 16 February to 23 April 2023.

    It is presented in partnership with the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, with additional support from Malik & Azmina Karim, The Ruia Foundation and SANTI.

    Here After Here After Here Jitish Kallat Whorled

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