Gandhi a figure of his time and ours: Roobina Karode, curator of India Pavilion at Venice Biennale | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Gandhi a figure of his time and ours: Roobina Karode, curator of India Pavilion at Venice Biennale | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

By PTI |Venice |Published: June 7, 2019 4:16:28 pm

Gandhi a figure of his time and ours: Roobina Karode, curator of India Pavilion at Venice Biennale

Karode said she wanted the walls of the old Venetian building housing the pavilion to echo with the essence that is Gandhi, and this determined the choice of artists she decided to showcase.

For the India pavilion at the Biennale – which began on May 11 and will continue till November 24 – she did not want Gandhi to be present in the form we know.

India was returning to the Venice Biennale after eight years, and Roobina Karode had just four months to curate a show themed on Mahatma Gandhi.