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Madhavi Swarup
“My real education began when the celebrated photographer S. Paul took me under his wings,” says Madhavi Swarup, who had, in fact bagged the best student award for photography at NIFT, Delhi.
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Reflections Through Another State
‘Resemble Reassemble’ presents facets of life peculiar to Pakistan. While the artworks are indicative of global influences in terms of the media and a visual language that is used world-wide, the artists do not engage with global issues, being more involved with those of immediate concern.
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Urban Testimonies
‘Urban Testimonies’ was as fresh, puzzling and exhilarating as the metro milieu for which it purports to bear witness.
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Shivani Aggarwal—Inhibiting Threads
The painted photographs in off white, greys and whites with minimal use of red are neither comforting nor alienating. In fact the problem is that they do not engage you for their own sake but in their apparent incompleteness compel you question.
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Weighing the Scale: Size Matters or Does it
Size in itself does not count for anything, but in relation to something it can pose a problem, be the solution or become a symbol of appreciation or disdain. Gallery Latitude 28 initiates this debate via their inaugural exhibition in Lado Sarai: ‘Size Matters or Does it?
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Jyoti Bhatt: A Mini Retrospective at Baroda
Jyoti Bhatt’s journey began in the post Independent milieu where Indian artists were eager to actively interact with the world and at the same time seek to engage with the local in search of a national identity.
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New Traditions
Do we see such textiles as traditional, modern or contemporary? Of the past or of the present? Or, as the title of this exhibition offers, is it a part of new traditions altogether? The exhibition unfolds with a section devoted to khadi and nationalism, the hand-spun and hand-woven coarse cotton, which Mahatma Gandhi made the symbol of Swaraj India.
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Why We Should/ Should We Remember?
The exhibition is eponymously based on the subject of history, and subsequently attempts to explore the idea of ‘memory’ and the ethics of it.
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Songs from the Blood of the Weary
Spending time with Rekha Rodwittiya is always fulfilling; you feel her passion, her involvement, and her determination to get her point across. This depth of emotion is reflected in her show at the Jehangir Nicholson Gallery at the Chhtarapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya in Mumbai.
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UnMYthU: Byproducts of Twenty Years of Performance
Mithu Sen’s practice often looks for the softest parts of vulnerable industries—language, the gender binary, or sexuality under the capitalist lens—and pulls the rug out from under them.
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