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Collective Actions to Haul Muffled Voices from an Abyss of Convoluted Noise – A Staged Hearing ‘In the Matter Re: Rights of Nature’

The fourth episode of the 3-year-long project 'Does the Blue Sky Lie: Testimonies of Air’s Toxicities' is a staged hearing titled 'In the matter Re: Rights of Nature'. Conceived by Khoj International Artists' Association and Zuleikha Chaudhari, in collaboration with lawyer Harish Mehla, the hearing leads an inquiry into the suspended histories of agrarian communities and the environment through the naturalist and socio-economic standpoints.

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Coming full circle: Pre and post Pandemic Art

By Tanya Dutt

Manchester-based curator Alnoor Mitha curated his very first show in India at Art Centrix Space, 'The Circle of Life', which ran from 12th November 2022 to 12th January 2023. Combining films, painting, drawing, installation, mixed media, and sculpture, the show was conceived in February 2020, just before the pandemic hit and came to fruition after 2 years and 9 months.

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Engulfed by impediments, Kochi-Muziris Biennale survived to return with the 5th edition

By Dilpreet Bhullar

The fifth edition of Kochi-Muziris Biennale "In Our Veins Flow Ink and Fire", curated by Singapore-based Indian origin artist Shubigi Rao, opened in its entirety on December 23, 2022.

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Between Warp and Weft: On Kallol Datta’s Textile Objects

By Najrin Islam

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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The Street and the Gallery: Shahidul Alam’s Archives of Practices

By Ranu Roychoudhuri

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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Pinning History to Paper

By Arushi Vats

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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To Contemplate and Complement: Vignettes of Art and Architecture in Bombay

By Dilpreet Bhullar

The cosmopolitan charm of the city never loses sight of its glorious past. When architectural space is conducive to viewing and understanding arts within a historical context, the imaginative and observational powers are heightened to complement each other and allow the viewers to contemplate what they have witnessed.

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Delhi Contemporary Art Week 2022: The Promise of Enticement and Experience

By Dilpreet Bhullar

The fifth edition of Delhi Contemporary Art Week (DCAW) 2022—held at the sprawling Bikaner House, New Delhi—pushes the discussions around art and economy with a spectrum of young contemporary artists.

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Undeciphered

By Lina Vincent

‘Epigraphica Indica’ pulls the viewer inward, and is a powerful reminder of the complexities of culture, identity, and belonging – and everything we take for granted in this contemporary, virtually driven world.

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Liquid Bodies and Morphing Sites: ‘Adorning Shadows’ by Radhika Khimji

By Najrin Islam

Khimji’s work animates a gaze on the body that conforms to, and in tandem, deviates from reductive tropes. Through an exercise in de-sexualisation, the female nude is stripped of its historical weight as the artistic ideal, and re-examined as a body in transit—a revelatory, yet equally opaque script of desires.

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