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All the World’s a Stage: An exhibition gauges sociopolitical realities through diverse narratives and mental maps | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

All the World’s a Stage: An exhibition gauges sociopolitical realities through diverse narratives and mental maps | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Written by Tanushree Ghosh |Updated: April 4, 2019 11:01:37 am



All the World’s a Stage: An exhibition gauges sociopolitical realities through diverse narratives and mental maps

A red, threadlike line, standing for the marginalised subaltern, cuts through the landscape of hierarchical practices in Om Soorya’s triptych Thin Red Line. Hazara artist Khadim Ali and Pakistan’s Waseem Ahmed employ traditional miniature styles to speak of war and conflict.

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Gigi Scaria’s Comfort Zone


At the opening of the exhibition “Cartography of Narratives”, actor Nasser Abdulla, with glasses resting on his nose bridge, pored over Noor Ali Chagani’s mixed media work Janamaz, for a considerable amount of time, perhaps, wondering how “rigid” terracotta bricks could be turned into a “flexible” prayer carpet acrylic canvas. Waswo X Waswo was standing next to his digital prints (black-and-white photographs on hand-coloured archival paper) of a pheriwala and the Bengali idol-makers of Udaipur, speaking excitedly about how his collaborator Rajesh Soni has learnt the Waswo ropes.

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