Gazing the Godot Spectacle. Visible, Yet inaccessible. Props, Present, Yet futile. Gesture. Made, Yet not. Script. Told, Yet not written. Waiting, An unending ephemerality. The photographs are clicked during the…
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भौतिकशास्त्रज्ञ वडिलांच्या सानिध्यात मोठे होताना त्यांनी सांगितलं होतं, ‘काळं’ म्हणजे प्रकाशाचा अभाव आणि ‘पांढरं’ म्हणजे सर्व रंगांचा समावेश- सगळे रंग सूर्यप्रकाशात न्ह्यायल्याने आकाश शुभ्र दिसते. माझ्याकडं एक रशियातून आणलेलं…
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Growing up as a child with a physicist father, I was told that black is the absence of light. And white was the all-encompassing colour that exists – the…
"I Can't be Both": The duality of being a survivor and perpetrator of sexuak violence in one body.
“By distancing ourselves from people who have committed harm and disregarding the…
‘You were there. I could hear you, but I only caught glimpses of you in the glass. Eventually I gave in and found myself staring at myself, reflected. Looking at…
Umesh Singh comes from an agricultural family from Bihar. Due to lack of sustenance in farming, his family migrated to an urban area by abandoning their traditional occupation. This series…
History of humanity begins with activities of geography and politics. Although boundary is a geographical expression, the idea of boundary cannot be separated from the essentiality of historical and political…
In my works, I portray my native land and try to express its untold stories. It is a visual cumulation of my memories of the land and its current /…
Sachin Bonde’s current series of works ‘The Black Metaphors’ is a study of irony: an irony of development, nation-states and commodification of desires. Through his sculptures, installations and etchings, Sachin…
Rumi Samadhan responds to Nasreen Mohmedi’s oeuvre through her visual reflections represented in digital compositions infused with ink and graphite drawings. Rumi tries to bring together various artistic influences and…
Coming from a lower middle-class Muslim family in Bengal, Ohida Khandakar in her work demonstrates the dichotomy between cultural hegemony and religious practice. Taking inspiration from miniature paintings, Ohida consciously…
An attempt in this essay is to decode Prabhakar Barwe’s practice outside arts historical perspective and observe his paintings, writings and notations against the backdrop of a psychological and philosophical…