India: First Stop Mumbai

20 February 2018

We arrived in Mumbai and headed to Gallery Odyssey where Dr. Arshiya Lokhandwala curated the group show ‘India Re-Worlded: Seventy Years of Investigating a Nation’ honoring the 70th anniversary of independence

India: First Stop Mumbai
I loved Shilpa Gupta’s neon however I found the explanation most confusing - ‘The work engages with the act of looking and remembering history and inevitable unevenness in the scripting of it which often foregoes singular one sided chronicles, with little space left for what is less eventful and what does not fall in line with the grander narrative’
India: First Stop Mumbai
Tate’s Ann Gallagher led collector Catherine Petitgas and I outside to the Mumbai Art Room, a magnificent art journey through India
India: First Stop Mumbai
At Sakshi Gallery I enjoyed the work of Ravi Kashi who learnt his craft from the Glasgow School of Art. The whole piece,’Silent Echo’, is constructed from handmade paper
India: First Stop Mumbai
In Mumbai airport I was totally mesmerized by the art on the walls as we walked miles and miles along the corridors. There was a great variety of works such as Nataraj Sharma's ‘Airshow and Construct’ which explores the urban landscape and industrial geometry. A comment on the construction that sweeps across Mumbai