Medium: Acrylic on canvas – 8 piece composition
Size: 11 x 7 feet
Year: 2024
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Celebration gates
Cakes, laddoos and chocolates
Colour stimulates, form titilates
Sotsass ruminates, Memphis he creates
Stella Kelly orchestrates
Post-modern syndicates
Unreal estate and development rates
JCB dominates, debris accumulates
Political checkmates, by the heavyweights
Inaugurating Infra projects on birthdates
As cost of living inflates, dire straits
Climate chaos awaits, our mistakes
Clickbaits and primetime debates
Less peoples mandates
More media magnates
But lets celebrate
Put up those celebration gates!
– Sameer Kulavoor
This work was part of ‘World, But No Home’ – exhibition curated by Kaiwan Mehta at Tarq Mumbai. 8 October – 16 November 2024
TARQ presents World, But No Home curated by Kaiwan Mehta, exploring notions that dovetail between ideas of home, the world and the city. The exhibition comes together as an extension of Mehta’s preoccupation with the theme explored in his book Alice in Bhuleshwar: Navigating a Mumbai Neighbourhood in 2009, which also continued through his doctoral thesis on Architectural Ornament and the Idea of the Neighbourhood.
Mehta writes, “[The exhibition] will try and understand what the experiences of our everyday negotiations are? How do contemporary experiences make for a more nuanced understanding of the spaces we occupy, and how we occupy our own selves embedded in home, in community, in nation, in humanity! Do we need newer forms of knowing our spaces and public-ness? How does the self and the citizen negotiate the quotidian, the everyday in life?”
Photographs courtesy: TARQ Gallery, Mumbai
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