Imagining 26/11

“Through the show,we want to discuss our concerns about the rise of terror. It is a global issue and what happened in Mumbai was one instance,” says Kapoor,preparing for the exhibition that begins on August 6. “This will deal with different facets of the incident,the trauma,the heroes and the eventual return to normality,” she adds.

Ravi Agarwal’s photographic work Morphology of Terror places the words “terrorist” and “terrorism” alongside “inaction”,“real” and “consumption”,urging viewers to correlate them,while in Rajarshi Smart’s mixed-media work that is reminiscent of poster art,the Taj Mahal Hotel is depicted on the back of an autorickshaw with the words Buri nazar wale tera muh kala. Rajesh Pullarwar has two works,one each for the martyrs Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan and constable Ambadas Pawar.

Swapan Biswas opts for an ornate representation. A couple posing before the Taj Mahal (left) in Agra is relegated to the backdrop,behind a cage,and in the foreground he has a cushioned sofa with pieces of broken bangles,a reference to the practice of a woman breaking her bangles upon her husband’s death.

There are images of hope too. Vivek Vilasini calls for peace in his black-and-white archival print Gandhi Street that has a figure of Mahatma Gandhi placed in a narrow alley,and Venkat Bothsa depicts the victory of good over evil in his work Mumbai through various pictorial references,from the Taj Hotel to NSG commandos to mourning relatives. “Words cannot describe how unfortunate the terror attack was. The exhibition enables artists to express their feelings,” says Visakhapatnam-based Bothsa.

The exhibition is on from August 6 to 12 at Stainless Gallery,Mathura Road.

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