Unlike Baldwin’s white man Waswo’s protagonist is not a conqueror. He is a refugee. Modelled on Waswo, he realises his privileges and differences, also cherishes the hospitality he enjoys and laments the difficulties he had faced to establish a career, political expression and free expression of desires.
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This exhibition could easily have been called A Border Tale. Because it deals with the divisions created and engendered by man to separate people by faith, by ideology and by colour, it takes on a special significance in today’s global environment of bias, mistrust and discrimination.
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While the contemporary art scenario is busy debating over ideas and images, Khanjan Dalal and Radhika Hamlai bring to us the process of discovering the image in the experience of making it. Both the artists showed their work at Gallery 079, Ahmedabad in November 2019.
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Cutting across faith and caste people have been flocking the Nizamuddin Basti in Delhi. All come for relief from physical ailments and some for just blessings from the Sufi saint. It was the midst of this area that the Delhi based artist Seema Kohli chose to exhibit her latest show, A Circle Of Our Own.
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Ghiya presents his creations with a vague matrix-like flair, announcing a Download Error that will be familiar to anyone who had tried to access a heavy picture file from internet. And for a moment it seems as if there has been a serious problem in printing out the images displayed.
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Anju Dodiya is a thoughtful woman. Her art is complex, involved, thought provoking and, yes, thoughtful. One look and you, her audience, know that it has a lot more meaning and significance than it seems on casual viewing. There is history, there is intellect, there is travel and reading and, again, a great deal of thought that has gone into creating it.
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A River Inside, Manisha Parekh's latest show in Mumbai at the Jhaveri Contemporary gallery, was rooted in the line in its various forms. It showed off various shapes and forms, most notable being the layered perforated stories she created with handmade paper.
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Can a painting be ‘heard’? When one encounters the works of the artist Gopi Gajwani, it is not difficult to experience the whispering strokes of charcoal and paint. The confidant vibrancy conveys the assuredness of their being, yet there is a sense of contradicting fragility, a layer of calm and subtle seduction.
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In this age of the internet, we have a group of artists presented as ‘Neti-netizens’. Curated by Girish Shahane at Gallery Threshold, these ‘Vanguards’ bring forth a legacy that produces meditative imagery, which differs refreshingly from the populist present-day avant-garde expression.
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Kansara seems obsessed with his family. He records and rerecords conversations around the dining table; his grandparents sleeping and moaning and reminiscing, projecting videos previously recorded, onto wall spaces and then re-recording them.
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