‘the earth is still going around the sun’

Thirteen curated exhibitions as part of the Curatorial Intensive South Asia 2019 programme which brought together fellows from Iran, India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka mentored by Leonhard Emmerling, Director, Programs South Asia, Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan; and Latika Gupta

 

On view are:

Alisha Sett (India) presents Rooee

Rooee addresses the remnants of the ‘empire of cotton’ in two prominent sites: the low country in South Carolina, USA and the textile mills of Mumbai

 

Ashima Tshering (India) presents Knock Knock

Knock Knock is an encounter with personal stories addressed through humour

 

Ayushma Regmi (Nepal) presents inhibitions.inhabitations

Inhibitions.inhabitations attempts to read bodies – human bodies, natural bodies, man-made bodies – to decrypt the fundamental question about what it means to be human

 

Diwas Raja (Nepal) presents Furnishing Papers

Using the original ID documents of the Manange people, the exhibition explores how a group of people interacted with the bureaucratic needs of the modern state of Nepal

 

Maryam Bagheri (Iran) presents Timequake

Studies show that a great earthquake will definitely occur in Teheran in the near future. This exhibition is an attempt to show how a natural phenomenon like an earthquake can turn into a human catastrophe

 

Mila Samdub (India) presents Real Time Tactics

Real Time Tactics combines spontaneous ways of using the platforms that form the basis of our social lives

 

Poulomi Paul (India) presents Pata

How do we represent places? How do we condense histories and lived realities of urban neighbourhoods into names and images? Pata tries to explore these questions

 

Pranamita Borgohain (India) presents Dis-place

Dis-place is structured around various areas of disagreements, discomforts and dislocation, each framing questions connected to the general line of inquiry while they also open specific discussion points

 

Rumi Samadhan (India) presents 1927:’Erasure’ as a form of assertion

The exhibition explores the concept of ‘erasure’ as a form of assertion, and centres on the Mahad Satyagraha as a pivotal moment of rupture within the practice of Untouchability in India 

 

Sadia Marium (Bangladesh) presents Ghar

A collection of video, photographs, photo-book, and paintings to dissect the meaning of ‘Ghar’ both as an idea and perception

 

Sarker Protick (Bangladesh) presents This too shall pass

How does are physical world and the socio/political states of affairs affect our mind?

 

Kirubalini Stephan (Sri Lanka) presents Memoryscapes

Is it ever possible to retrace memory? How do our memories define us? Memoryscapes interweaves with multiple narratives of past and present

 

Zohreh Deldadeh (Iran) presents Some-Bodies: Bodily Narratives in Iranian Contemporary Art

This exhibition focuses on different perspectives of seeing the body in Iranian contemporary art

 

As part of this exhibition, there will be a film screening on Monday, 16 December 2019 at 18:30 at C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium

 

(Collaboration: Khoj International Artists’ Association; and Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan)