Eight artists from the North East come together to shed light on the issues pertinent to borders and their land | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Eight artists from the North East come together to shed light on the issues pertinent to borders and their land | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Written by Pallavi Chattopadhyay |Updated: August 8, 2019 9:03:01 am

Eight artists from the North East come together to shed light on the issues pertinent to borders and their land

Reminding the viewer of the famous yesteryear black and white Mickey Mouse cartoons are Shillong-based artist Treibor Mawlong’s woodcuts, Hills & Tales, where nine panels question the notion of home.

Obsessed of Intersection by Victor Hazra

Having been an eye witness to the 2008 Agartala serial blasts, the memories of the horrific incident and of bleeding victims being rushed to hospitals, left artist Victor Hazra from Tripura filled with dread and fear. Soon after, he decided to embark on a year-long project where he sourced photographs of bowl-shaped craters, caused due to bombings, from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq from Google and juxtaposed them with outlines of flowers as a sign of condolence. At Delhi’s Akar Prakar Contemporary gallery, Sepulchre, Hazra is showcasing a set of seven works where he marries glass etchings with photography to recreate broken and shattered pieces of bombed land by covering them with flowers like rose or sunflower. It is an attempt “to cover up the scars of terrorism”.