Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2014
by Critical Collective 1. How do you understand or interpret Whorled Explorations?
The curatorial note touches upon many areas of human endeavour, which have carried out physical, mental and existential exploration of the world and the universe. Myth, history, religion, colonialism and the understanding
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by Meera Menezes Hesitant Attempt presented a picture in precariousness. It depicted Icarus, the figure from Greek mythology, who famously disregarded the advice of his father and flew too close to the sun with wings made of feathers and wax. Unlike the mythical figure, who plunged to his death when his wings
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by Gayatri Sinha Published by Palette Art Gallery in the catalogue of Absence of an architect-Gigi Scaria, August 2007
The city appears as a maze of bridges, galis, shop fronts, alleys, metro lines, wells, man holes, malls, stalls, parks, heights, elevations. Viewed like a map, it is a web interdependencies
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by Satyanand Mohan One of the reigning obsessions of a great deal of art produced in the last two decades in developing nations (and in India specifically) has been with articulating the shifting contours and spaces of globalization, in order to come to terms with the rapid changes that the contemporary socio-political
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