At the 54th Rencontres d’Arles photography festival, India sparkles
Tanvi Mishra, an independent curator from India conceptualized the Louis Roederer Foundation Discovery Award exhibition, in a 15th century Gothic
Tanvi Mishra, an independent curator from India conceptualized the Louis Roederer Foundation Discovery Award exhibition, in a 15th century Gothic church.
Updated on Aug 16, 2023 10:16 PM IST 10 Photos
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From, ‘Inheritance, Home series, Kolkata, 2021.’ Returning to live with her parents during the Covid-19 pandemic, artist Riti Sengupta found herself confronted with the weight of patriarchy hanging over the family home. Her series is an intergenerational dialogue between mother and daughter through collaborative performances. (Riti Sengupta)
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From ‘Imaginary Museum VII (Picabia), National Science Center, New Delhi, 2017.’ Through an archive that comprises images taken in exhibition galleries and those of comments found in visitors’ books, in museums across India, artist Philippe Calia draws attention to the constructs of the post-colonial institution, and its impact on our perception of art, artefact, and ideas, writes Tanvi Mishra, the curator of the exhibition. (Philippe Calia)
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From, ‘A Discreet Exit through the Darkness series, 2020–ongoing.’ In 1969, artist Soumya Sankar Bose’s mother went missing after she went to the neighbourhood confectionery to buy sweets for a religious offering. He was only nine years old then. She was found three years later. In an effort to piece together the incident related to the disappearance of his mother, Bose examines memory and its shifting nature in his work, ‘A Discreet Exit through the Darkness.’(Soumya Sankar Bose / Experimenter)
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‘Edges,’ archival inkjet print, 2020. Tracing her roots to African, Indian, Jamaican and Trinidadian ancestry, artist Samantha Box finds a home within the diaspora. In her work ‘Constructions,’ Box builds tableaux and still-life images using family heirlooms and objects carrying cultural memory. Plants, local to the Caribbean and “alien” to the United States, are grown under artificial lights ‒ stand-ins for immigrant populations, they adopt strategies, that are crucial for survival in foreign lands, writes Tanvi Mishra, the curator of the exhibition.(Samantha Box)
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