Contents
Art India
Vol.26,No.3,Quarter 3,April 2023
Prelude 14
Contributors 20
Editorial 21
Contents 22
Profiles
Conversations between contexts drive Samira Rathod's architectural practice, revcals Sonal Sundararajan 24
The hurting interiorities of a fractured world: Shweta Upadhyay explores works by Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai,Saubiya Chasmawala and Baaraan ljlal 34
Constructed sets and the zones they Bordewekar occupy: Sandhya cxplores how Dia Mehhta Bhupal captures the quiet drama of sill spaces 42
Rajyashri Goody's critical interventions explore lived facets of Dalit resistance in India. Arushi Vats traces her radical practice that includes performance, print, ceramic and photographic installations 48
Profile: Showcase
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What stories of struggle are all those hands couning on their fingers? asks Abhay Sardesai as he makcs a sclection of Amol K. Patil's latest works 58
Profiles
There is lush beauty in his work but also dark and disquieting fantasy: Jasmine Shah Varma checks out the subversive art of T. Venkanna 64
Mahesh Baliga offers intimate portraits of people and objects. Meera Menezes dwells on the telling details 74
Reviews
Biraaj Dodiya's layered landscapes are metaphors or bodily frailies, failures and fluctuations. maintains Adwait Singh 82
Sunil Gupta discusses four of his notable series with Shweta Upadhyay as Gautami Reddy traces his journey as a photographer-activist 88
Devika Sundar explores the bod and its various fragilities by tracing the kinship between human organs, flowy forms and aquatic creatures, discovers Joshua Muyiwa 96
Appearances and their deceptive stratagems: Meera Menezes responds to Sunil Gawde’s sculptures 100
Landscapes and horizons, ruptures and fissures: Meera Menezes explores the thought in Alwar Balasubramanian’s art. " I04
Neha Mitra checks out the absurd, ominous world of CK Rajan and the poetic photograms of Anwar Jalal Shemza and Simryn Gill 108
Shaurya Kumar summons up a illusory divine presence though absences and fractures, finds Aranya 112
Special Fearures
The 14th edition of the India Art air was mounted better than its earlier avatars, claims Aranya, as he picks some of the memorable works on display 116
Sangita Jindal chooses five of her favourite works at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 120
It's been 25 years since Jitish Kallat had his first solo. Premjish Achari discusses bis Current work 126
Interviews
Aul Dodia engages in filmi baatein with Abhay Sardesai 134
Photo books, photo novels, photo museum: Hasselblad
Award winner Dayanita Singh talks to Shreevatsa Nevatia about pushing images to arrive at new meanings 144
Book Expert
Ganesh Haloi visited Ajanta in 1957and documented it for the next 6 years, after a period of 60 years, he presents his drawings 154
Listings 159