In The Light Of
[vc_row row_content_width="grid" css=".vc_custom_1585565924555{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;}" el_class="exhibition-single"][vc_column width="4/6"][eltdf_section_title type="standard" position="" title_tag="h4" disable_break_words="no" title="In The Light Of"][vc_column_text el_class="post-paragraph-font"]One scorching summer noon in 1970, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Nasreen Mohamedi and their cameras visited Fatehpur Sikri. The artist friends were exploring and photographing the site, when Gulam in a gesture of play/camaraderie/solidarity/curiosity took it upon himself to see what Nasreen was seeing through her lens, and literally positioned his lens such that he could access her perspective.
Nasreen’s image of the Anoop Talao at Fatehpur went on to become one of her most reproduced and readily recognised, while Gulam did not develop his negatives for the longest. Years later, when Gulam finally did develop, he realised what had happened: Two near-identical images.
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The above-stated events did not transpire. Not as such, anyway.
A Voyage of Seemingly Propulsive Speed and an Apparent Absolute Stillness
A multidisciplinary three artist show which will showcase their studies through three words, myth, suspension and violence, which become points of reference
Embark III
The third edition of Embark continues in the spirit of creating a platform space for the recent graduates of the Faculty of Fine Arts to exhibit their work. One of the important aspects of the curation of this show is