In a realm where critical theory intersects with aesthetic practice, Dheeraj Jadhav offers a peculiar lens through which one explores the complex interweaving of colonial and decolonial histories through sensory…
My enquiries and observations around the multiple acts, performances, and operations of power in interpersonal relationships as well as the ideological mediations in everyday life at the levels of the…
This series of five works is narrative in nature. It is an inner dialogue in silent observance. In the landscape of life, I often go inwards to find my resources,…
I spent my childhood in the 90s, in a highly militarised zone of Assam, against the backdrop of a river erosion. Insurgency was at its peak in the 90s; one…
A scene from the beginning of the film The Unknown Girl (2016) by the Dardenne brothers: the film’s protagonist, a female doctor, listens to a patient’s chest using a stethoscope. In the…
Freed from the concerns of the “higher” genres—the symbolic paraphernalia of power and its representation, and the reference to traditional religious values and collective life, still lifes unlike other figurative…
Silence and Surveillance: Exploring Power, Urban Life, Resistance, and Reflection A juxtaposition of silence and surveillance is particularly poignant when examining the themes of power and urban life, as presented…
My paper focuses on this precarious bare life associated with the migrant labourers through the representational matrix of Samina Mishra and Tarique Aziz’s picture book, Jamlo Walks which tries to…