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Someone Else’s Home Alone

by Parni Ray
Gautam Bhatia, Niyeti Chadha, Zuleikha Chaudhari, Abir Karmarkar, Chittrovanu Mazumdar, Prajakta Potnis, Mithu Sen, Praneet Soi, Hema Upadhyay at The Loft At Lower Parel May 23rd, 2012 - July 14th, 2012
Posted 7/17/12

What is it that makes me ‘me’ and you ‘you'? Broken down to the basic unit, rounded off to the last decimal point, what of us will remain if our being, this Sisyphean burden we bear daily, is removed quite out of the blue? A few strands of hair on the bed we sleep in, the smell of skin under the sheets, our well dug footprints on the soles of shoes, tossed indelicately once beyond the familiar threshold of home. And perhaps a note. Poignant in its brevity and aptly mystifying. But will these... [more]

Pill Appeal

by Himali Singh Soin
Jaishri Abichandani, Sarnath Banerjee, Ayesha Durrani, Kaif Gaznavi, Tushar Joag, Abir Karmakar, Swati Khurana, Nandita Kumar, Tazeen Qayyum, Mithu Sen, Vito Tumbarello at Latitude 28 January 22nd, 2011 - February 22nd, 2011
Posted 1/31/11

The Pill is a Personification. The Pill is a Hyperbole, an Archetype, a Symbol. It’s tiny, systematic, circular self has flirtatiously traveled across the globe, morphing old wives tales about women’s cycles, reproduction and sexual intercourse. And how the tiny tablets find themselves in an art gallery in Delhi only hints at their locomotive stamina. Particularly fascinating, across the exhibition, is the number of artists that chose to employ the shape of a circle, in image, metaphor and meani... [more]

Conference Report: "Architecture of Erotica" at JNU

by Manjari Kaul
Mithu Sen at Arts and Aesthetics Visual Art Gallery, JNU November 10th, 2010 - November 26th, 2010
Posted 11/23/10

The Architectures of Erotica: Interdisciplinary conference at the School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Art Exhibitions: Mithu Sen’s “Black Candy [iforgotmypenisathome]” and ‘Waste’ curated by the M.A. students of the School of Arts &Aesthetics, JNU “The Architectures of Erotica,” an interdisciplinary conference held at the School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi offered an intellectually arousing trajectory through the p... [more]

Tagging Today

by Sophia Powers
Vishal Dar, Atul Dodiya, Ved Gupta, G. R. Iranna, Shreyas Karle, RIYAS KOMU, Bose Krishnamachari, Sathyanand Mohan, Baiju Parthan, Rakhi Peswani, Justin Ponmany, Balaji Ponna, Prajakta Potnis, Sumedh Rajendran, K. P. Reji, T.V. Santhosh, Gigi Scaria, Mithu Sen, Kiran Subbaiah, Apnavi Thacker, Vivek Vilasini at The Guild Art Gallery August 5th, 2010 - September 23rd, 2010
Posted 8/24/10

With the Asian Games less than 50 days away, and India’s capitol in a state of utter disrepair—not to mention the scores of underpaid and overworked migrant laborers who have flooded Delhi, as well as the country’s other metros, to build not only shabby stadiums but countless high-rises - one would expect a few more signs of popular outcry. But street graffiti is conspicuously absent. The buildings, even when crumbling and monsoon-stained, are largely left unmarked by political sloga... [more]

Back to the Drawing

by Anirvan Dasgupta
Jogen Chowdhury, Alex Chowdhury (others), Partha Pratim Deb, Manisha Parekh, Mithu Sen, Vivan Sundaram at The Harrington Street Arts Centre June 14th, 2010 - July 24th, 2010
Posted 6/27/10

Drawing is a structural expression articulated through motifs to create a unifying visual code cutting across linguistic barriers. For Adip Dutta, artist and curator of “Writing Visuals” at the Harrington Street Art Centre, Kolkata, drawing is a relentless language, in pursuit of other modes of expression such as painting for instance, never quite the end in itself; rather, it is a blue-print, a surrogate for writing in words. The exhibition is a comprehensive congregation of artists, w... [more]

Interview with Mithu Sen
by Sophia Powers
2010-10-18

India, Oct. 2010 - Back in 2007, the Delhi-based artist Mithu Sen had achieved what most art graduates only dream of: financial success and critical recognition. She had had solo shows abroad and was represented by India’s top galleries…but she was increasingly disillusioned by the market-centric logic of the art world. Such angst is not new, but Mithu’s solution was. She decided to begin a new project called “Free Mithu,” in which she offered free works of art—with authenticity certifi... [more]