Tag: India
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Sutapa Biswas – interview: ‘I felt questioning established systems of knowledge and power was as vital as breathing’
Sutapa Biswas talks about her lifelong quest to decolonialise British art history, and about her two forthcoming exhibitions
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Shneel Malik – interview: ‘I’m a crazy optimist. I know that the right opportunity comes at the right time’
Architect and bio-designer Shneel Malik discusses bio-algae, eco-aesthetics, artisans pioneering ecological waste-water treatment, and the next steps for her award-winning Indus project
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Sohrab Hura – interview: ‘The only thing I can take responsibility for is my own relationship with the world’
The photographer talks about his new book, Coast, and his aim of sucking viewers in with a narrative and then taking them to a point of incoherence so that they look at things anew
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Rajyashri Goody: Eat With Great Delight
Goody, herself of Dalit heritage, talks about discrimination in India against the Dalits and how, in her first solo exhibition, she is using photographs of her family and turning Dalit literature into recipes, to highlight the significant and complex relationship…
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Bharti Kher: ‘In the way a kitchen has many different things cooking at the same time, so does my studio’
Kher talks about the difficulty of being identified as an ‘Indian’ artist, being a procrastinator, and making material things do things they don’t want to
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Mithu Sen: ‘I constantly change my mediums so the market will not be able to trap me’
Indian artist Mithu Sen has a quicksilver practice that is difficult to categorise or maintain as a singular narrative. This, she says, is intentional – it is her effort to defy the demands of the market
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Raqib Shaw: ‘I really don’t give a fuck about the so-called contemporary art world’
In his converted home and studio in south London, surrounded by dogs, myriad staff, an exquisitely kept bonsai collection and apparently endless reserves of champagne, the artist discusses childhood, gardening and his route to becoming a painter
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GR Iranna: ‘I treat all forms that I create with equal compassion – whether it is a tree or a carpet’
As he prepares for a solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Bangalore, the artist explains that, despite a move towards more abstract works, the human element in his painting and sculptures is still implicit
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The Fabric of India
Every square inch of fabric in this exhibition has a story to tell, from a sweat-stained talismanic shirt to an opulent Mughal-style tent. The closer you look the more you will see
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Zakkir Hussain and Rakhi Peswani
Two solo exhibitions featuring alumni from India’s premier art institute in Baroda throw up interesting questions about violence, self and the processes of survival
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