"Afar" is the title of Pradip Malde's exhibition of photographs at the Nashville International Airport terminal. This work is based on his travels to India in 1995, where his observations of religious and secular life formed the series "Prayer and Despair," on display on Concourse A. An additional group of works combining gestural and expressive calligraphy with photographic images will also be on display in the Fine Dining Area. This series continues his contemplation of the place from which his ancestors originate. He states, "I have traveled much, and everywhere I have sensed a homecoming. This [India], however, is different. The traveler makes traveling his abode, but what strange weight descends when he feels rooted, not just by geography but by ancestry?"

Malde, who was raised in the United Kingdom, is currently a professor of fine arts at the University of the South in Sewanee, TN. He received a Master of Arts degree in design at the Glasgow School of Art in Glasgow, Scotland, and a Diploma in photography from Bournemouth College of Art in England. Early in his career, he was commissioned to make platinum palladium prints from the negatives of the Imogen Cunningham Trust in Berkeley, CA, which resulted in exhibitions in Glasgow and in Frankfurt, Germany. Some of his recent solo exhibitions include, "Dragon," at the Pluto Gallery in Oslo, Norway; "Smoke," at the University Gallery in Sewanee; and "Prayer and Despair," at the Edinburgh College of Art.

Arts at the Airport receives funding for the visual arts from the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority (MNAA) and the Tennessee Arts Commission (TAC). Music performances are sponsored by MNAA, Delaware North Companies, Inc. and The Paradies Shops. The Flying Solo Exhibition Series is funded in part under an agreement with the TAC and the National Endowment for the Arts. For more information about Arts at the Airport, please call (615)275-1614 or visit www.artsattheairport.com.