For his first solo show, Canary In A Coal Mine (2012), Prabhakar Pachpute gave vistors at Mumbai’s Clark House Initiative an immersive understanding of the plight of miners from Maharashtra’s remote Chandrapur district (also his home town). As torches examined his dimly-lit charcoal murals, suffering and subjugation came into full view. This time around, the… Continue reading Name to know: Prabhakar Pachpute
How do we create personal geographies in which our inner and outerworlds collide? It’s a question that has preoccupied the Delhi-based artist for nearly a decade – and in her first solo exhibition Every Place that is on at Mumbai’s Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke this month, she passes it on to viewers. Khanna uses glass and… Continue reading Name to know: Ratna Khanna
The ink-hued photographs from Ayesha Sultana’s Tunnel series (2014-ongoing) capture both stillness and anticipation in vacant train sheds, in-process excavations and dizzying mine shafts. Printed with the 20th-century cyanotype technique, the stark landscapes reflect Sultana’s fascination with space. “I have been interested in spatial concerns related to visual perception,” says Sultana, 30, who’s fast gaining… Continue reading Name to know: Ayesha Sultana
Curator Shanay Jhaveri will soon join New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art as the assistant curator of South Asian Art (under the museum’s Department of Modern and Contemporary Art). Earlier this January, we told you he was one to watch! Swot up on three of his major projects (so far): Companionable Silences (2013): Jhaveri’s work,… Continue reading Shanay Jhaveri joins the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Brazil is the plastic surgery capital of the world; doctors there even offer toe liposuction. That’s right, for fat toes. So it’s doubly endearing that the country is also home to Eduardo Santos aka Edull Ardo. The 28-year-old illustrator draws plus-sized women in the mould of Disney princesses, superheroes and generally as people deserving of… Continue reading Plus-size princesses
In case you missed it, the Venice Biennale is currently underway. Rajeeb and Nadia Samdani, of the Samdani Art Foundation, hosted a dinner at the St. Regis to celebrate Raqs Media Collective and Naeem Mohaiemen, whose is ice work the Foundation supported in the international pavilion of the Venice Biennale. They also Celebrated the launch… Continue reading The Samdanis host a dinner at the Venice Biennale
