The TAKE Memory is an endeavour to expand the many meanings entailed in the discipline of memory. The issue emerges from this context to identify the ground of inclusive perspective on the lived experiences by extending critical inquiry on the constellation of photo-archives, monuments, memorials, visual culture and digital technology.
Details BuyTAKE Memory: Editor’s Note
Representational ethics, the hidden face, and the work of memory
Letter from Lahore: An exchange between Neelam Hussain and Salima Hashmi (2016-2022)
A Dacca Childhood: On Photographs and Family Memories
Recreating and Embodying Lahore in Delhi
1947 Partition and the Art of Zarina
Terrasonic Agency: Working the Earth
(Post)memory Democracy Remembering Partition through Emergent Visual-Material Objects
The Landscape of 1971: Museums, Memories, and the Aesthetics of Bangladeshi Nationalism
Digital Archives and the Crowdsourcing of the Past
Re: Staging the Trial of Bahadur Shah Zafar (1858)
Afterlives of the Constant Past in the Photographs from Kashmir: Rematerializing Space dotted by Mediation and Inscription
Creole Indias and the Artistic Activation of Memory
Partition Anti-Memorial Project: Resisting Political Appropriation through Feminist Art
Intergenerational Memories of 1947 Partition: The South Asian Diaspora in the United Kingdom
‘The Contrarieties in our Longings’: Mohammed Rafi Fan Blog
A Memorial for a Harvest: Dharmendra Prasad’s Museum of Grass
Bani Abidi: Revisit the Many Haunts Borne by Unsung Warriors of the First World War
Listening to Lines: Encountering Nasreen Mohamedi
Of Separation and Belonging: Sayed Haider Raza
Review of ‘Event, Memory, Metaphor’
Beyond the Dark Edge: Exploring the Nuanced World of Arunima Choudhury
The Street and the Gallery: Shahidul Alam’s Archives of Practices
Between Warp and Weft: On Kallol Datta’s Textile Objects
The World Expressed Through Diverse Mediums and in Different Voices
The Milk of Dreams: 59th Venice Biennale
The Universe in Me, I Am the Universe
‘Jitish Kallat: Order of Magnitude’
Field Report of a Cultural Worker’s Residency in Basel, Switzerland
A City Through Objects - 101 Stories from the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum
Navjot At Work and Artist’s Notes
Modernism/Murderism: The Modern Art Debate in Kumar
Splendors of Punjab: Art from the Khanuja Family Collection
Let’s See
Guftgu
Connecting the Dots of Memory
Metaphor and Memory
A Repository of Rich Indian Art finds a New Life in Bihar Museum
Preserved and Framed
The Memory of Ice
Fly on the Wall
Tangled Hierarchy
What Future Hides: Writing Critically In/For a Changing Nation
Amitesh Grover
Arpana Caur
Sheba Chhachhi
Nilima Sheikh
Apnavi Makanji
Datta’s objects carry secrets around knots and folds at the kernel, and point to his practice of cutting patterns in a circular fashion at the formative stage. The circular pattern-cutting registers as an attempt to eliminate the possibility of waste, where the leftover fabric is turned into appendages for the installations.
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As a long-time viewer of the Venice Biennale, I was particularly struck by the challenges of the post-human condition which Alemani engaged with. Ecology, technology, mental health, and the human body became key concerns for Alemani.
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In bearing witness to the historical and the everyday, Alam continuously blurs the boundaries between the aesthetic, the political and the personal. Simultaneously, the retrospective showcased Alam’s critique of the Global South’s erasure from the history of photography and how his prominent presence in the “West” is a corrective towards decolonizing photography.
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Poised at two ends of the same spectrum Ganesh Haloi and Jogen Chowdhury tend to negotiate memory in remarkably individual ways, where a sense of optimism and renewal of life glow as radiantly as the underlying passages of pain and pathos.
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In the recent works of Manisha Gera Baswani, repair and tending are transformative acts with complex contours, reminding us that healing and growing are interlaced with pain and grief, and that the fabric of life is studded with harvest and hibernation.
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Unique, limited editioned and handcrafted affordable artworks by eminent artists exclusively commissioned for TAKE on Art.
Lingam Lamp, Sculpture Cast aluminium, toggle switch cast in aluminium, Edition of 25, 10 x 7.25 x 14 inches, Lingam Lamp by Ashiesh Shah, 2020
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Untitled , Hand–painting on Papier Mache, 11 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches, Hand-painted book object by Ganesh Haloi, 2021
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My Bonsai Tiger, Stainless Steel, 264.4 mm x 306.6 mm x 1.5 mm, Limited edition of 35 , My Bonsai Tiger by Rekha Rodwittiya, 2022
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Untitled, Mirror Acrylic, Limited edition of of 50, 13 x 9.2 inches, Untitled by Shilpa Gupta, 2022
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Birds from the Golden Cage, Stoneware ceramics in Nerikomi technique, 8.5 inches each clapper, Series of 5 (Compositions of Hoopoe, Indian Pitta, Kingfisher, Muniya & Owl), A series of ceramic clappers made in Nerikomi technique by Kavita Pandya Ganguly., 2022
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Talisman (Twin-1), Digital collage printed on rice paper (100 GSM), with wooden boxes for encasing Limited edition of 10, each numbered and signed, 9 x 9.4 cm (h x w), length of spread out 514.5 cm, the attached wooden support covers 2 cm, outer box: 10.4 x 12.4 x 6 cm (h x w x d), A digital collage accordion format book named ‘Talisman’, Second edition, 2022
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Re[construction], Brass ghungroos (trinkets) and steel, 14x 8 x 8 inches, A series of unique sculptures made of brass ghungroos (trinkets) and steel by Vibha Galhotra, 2022
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Reordered Records: Amalgamation as sculpture (1), Biodegradable polylactic acid, Limited edition of 10, 21 x 16 x 12 inches, Editioned sculptures made of biodegradable polylactic acid by Ayesha Singh, 2022
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Drop, Unbleached cotton painted with acrylic paints, aluminium wire, Limited series of 35, 6 x 3 inches approx., wire: 38 inches approx., outer acrylic box: 6.5 x 6.5 x 8.75 inches, A series of soft fabric sculptures by Dhruvi Acharya, 2022
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Untitled, Paper mache and acrylic paint Hand-painted Unique Book , 11 x 11 x 2 inches, Untitled, 2016
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Table Lamp, Mixed Media Unique Series of 12, 20 inches (lamp shade 7 x 12 inches, stand: 12 x 9 inches), Table Lamp, 2011
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Painted Palettes, Acrylic on palette (MFD board) Series of 10, , Painted Palettes, 2012
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Museum Bhavan, Nine individual ‘museums’ in book form in a handmade box , 3.7 x 5.5 inches , Museum Bhavan, 2017
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Untitled, Etching on copper and carved mahogany wood Edition of 50, 12 x 10 inches, Untitled, 2009
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Stretched Body Series, Watercolour on arches paper-pulp book cast sculpture Hand-painted Unique Book , 11 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches, Stretched Body Series, 2014
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Untitled, Collage, watercolour, graphite on paper mache Hand-painted Unique Book, 11 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches, Untitled, 2014
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Untitled , Collage, watercolour, graphite on paper mache Hand-painted Unique Book , 11 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches, Untitled , 2014
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Torso, Hand gilded on polyester resin fiber Exclusive Edition of 30, 9 inches, Torso by G. Ravinder Reddy, 2017-2018
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Two Thousand Three Hundred Grams of What?, Acrylic and decoup acrylic Limited Edition of 50, 11.5 x 8.7 x 1.5 inches, Two Thousand Three Hundred Grams of What? by Raqs Media Collective, 2013
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The Popular Series, Native Women of South India: Manners and Customs, Giclee Print, 5.5 x 8 inches each, The Popular Series, Native Women of South India: Manners and Customs by Pushpamala N and Clare Arni, 2000-2004
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I Never Promised You A Rose Garden, Single book in metal Editions of 50, 8.6 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Shilpa Gupta, 2011
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The Book of Sand – II, Watercolour and marble dust on arches paper-pulp book cast sculpture Hand-painted Unique Book, 11 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches, The Book of Sand Series by Atul Dodiya, 2016
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The Book of Sand – I, Watercolour and marble dust on arches paper-pulp book cast sculpture Hand-painted Unique Book, 11 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches, The Book of Sand Series by Atul Dodiya, 2016
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Pink elephant in bathtub, Digital print on archival paper Edition of 50, 5 x 7 inches, Pink Anubhav Highres by Manjunath Kamath, 2011
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Matchbox, Digitally printed matchboxes, 15 x 15 inches , Series of unique pieces signed by the artist , 2018
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Forbidden Stories, Paper Mache and acrylic paint on arches paper-pulp book cast sculpture Hand-painted Unique Book , 11 x 11 x 2 inches, Series of unique pieces signed by the artist , 2016
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Anti-clock, Mixed media (water colour on hand-made sheet, velvet etc.), Sizes vary, Series of unique pieces signed by the artist , 2011
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Tract, Visual book with 100 images, 1200 gsm, natural evolution hard bound Limited Editions of 100, 12 x 17 inches, A photo book that encapsulates the collapse of ecological terrain to advance the multitude of urban life.,
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