Bharti Kher Explores ‘The Unexpected Freedom of Chaos’ at Perrotin Gallery

These are a few of Bharti Kher’s predictions for 2020: “Texting will be made possible by thought power alone, using headsets that detect and convert brain signals to digital signals. A pill for curing malaria will be available, and major experiments in longevity yield promising results. Right wing ideologies find voice in leaderships across the world. Climate crisis caused by changes in the weather becomes a major threat to the earth and its ecosystems. I am 51.” The artist outlines these predictions and many more, for the years 2010 to 2039, in a booklet accompanying her 30-year project “Virus.” The artwork, composed of a spiral of white bindis, is affixed to the wall leading into the skylit exhibition space at Perrotin gallery in New York. Kher, who lives and works in New Delhi, India, has been staying in one of the gallery’s top-floor artist apartments while installing “The Unexpected Freedom of Chaos,” her first solo show in New York since 2012. The exhibition marks a continuation of her exploration of ideas around the self, sight, and change. Kher notes that in the time she’s been away, New York has changed — but so has the world, so has her art, and so

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