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The residency,in its tenth edition,will culminate in an exhibition on June 19. “The five contemporary artists at the Peers Residency have been engaged in various elements such as identity,personal politics and of course,the cityscape,” says Shaheen Ahmed,critic in residence. Like Upadhya,Pratik Bhattacharya and Sashi Thavudoz have also explored Delhi. Bhattacharya questions the voice of citizens in a milieu where politics seems to dominate the everyday,and Thavudoz reflects on living conditions in an over-populated city. “My installation meditates on the feeling of claustrophobia,and space-making tools that aim to overcome the physical understanding of space,” says Thavudoz. His life-size installation,made of packaging material,resembles a construction site . “I am looking at the city as a built space where each person is trying to create more space within a limited one,” he says.

Meanwhile,Parag Sonarghare engaged in a dialogue with inanimate aata (wheat flour) for 10 days. “I was keen to understand how the aata was reacting to me and my behaviour with it. It was a conversation about my offerings in terms of sweat,touch and me being physically there with the aata,” he says.