Joining the Dots

On display at Nature Morte gallery,it is part of an exhibition called,“Parallel Postulates”. This branch,placed on a steel table — used for treating patients — is Dube’s cultural response towards crime against women. “I have used the table to show that we have to treat this condition. It is titled The Cage,as it is a cage for women as well as men. Unless we wake up to this tragedy we cannot come out of it,” says the Delhi-based artist.

Peter Nagy,curator of the show,says,“I often visit studios of artists and observe their work. Recently,I noticed that artists are interested in geometric structures and systems,and each artist has his/her own identity. So I decided to have this exhibition around geometry,diagrammatic structures and mathematical constructions.”

Architect Martand Khosla’s installation titled Disequilibrium,has wipers on a pool table with reddish pebbles made from bricks scattered all around. The wiper blades clear them out,but they come back. “I have explored the relationship the state has with its citizens,especially the underprivileged,and the battles they have to fight in a city. It shows how the state removes slums and how they come back into existence again. During the preparation for the Commonwealth Games in 2010,in a desperate bid to beautify the city,many slums were demolished and the people living there were forgotten,” he says.

Khosla’s other series of works titled Naturae,made using brick dust on paper,shows labourers working at construction sites,carrying cement loads on their head and shovels in their hands. The title comes from his childhood memories of studying zoologist and botanist Carolus Linnaeus’ book Systema Naturae,which provided a classification of the plant and animal kingdom. “This is a new taxonomy I have tried to explore,where new structures have come into existence in a post-Capitalist era. It shows how labourers are working for the rich and have become the mode of production,” says the 38-year-old.

The exhibition is on display at

A-1Neeti Bagh,till January 4.

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