Title: Wall Politic
Medium: Soft body and Fluid acrylic paints on Saunders Waterford acid-free paper
Size: 29.75 x 22 inches each
Year: 2024-25
Wall Politic was exhibited at ‘LIMITS OF THE TOWN…’, Kulavoor’s solo show curated by Tasneem Zakaria Mehta at Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, between 11th Nov and 28th Dec 2025.
All photographs by Anil Rane, courtesy of Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum.
Text from BDL Museum:
The series Wall Politic explores the various implications of walls as a symbol: both architectural and ideological, the personal and the political. A wall can be the comforting enclosure of a private space or the imposing dividing line drawn between nations, ideologies, and people.
Rendered in iterations of clean geometric forms, the wall is imagined not just as a physical structure but as a metaphor for human relationships, boundaries, and conflict. As the walls continually morph, fold, open, some walls appear friendly; others are complex, maze-like, or geometrically impossible, challenging our perception of space and separation, of inside and outside. These visual metaphors speak to the dynamics between two sides of a relationship, each responding differently to the same divide.
Historically, walls have been wielded as instruments of nationalism, fear, and exclusion. Walls have come to symbolize more than physical barriers, they represent ideologies, identities, and power struggles. As an architectural element, the wall carries much political and symbolic weight. Wall Politic offers a symbolic meditation on how one simple element when repeated, reinterpreted, and recontextualized can carry such immense narrative potential.
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