Show Stopper

For the past one year,regulars at Friends Colony Community Centre in Delhi have routinely walked into Gallery Espace on the last Wednesday of every month to watch new video works. This week,the event popularly known as Video Wednesdays,ends with a festival to highlight the importance of the medium. “The aim was to create awareness about video art through the works of several artists. We have been able to provide an exposure to the medium,” says Renu Modi,director of Gallery Espace.

While the videos showcased through the year will play on one screen,the gallery will also have video compilations put together by five guest curators — Bose Krishnamachari,Gayatri Sinha,Nancy Adajania,Arshiya Lokhandwala and Suresh Jayaram.

Bose Krishnamachari has chosen Anup Mathew Thomas’s Light Life,which questions the ban on bar dancers in Mumbai,as well as Sudarshan Shetty’s Six Drops,which revolves around the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in London. Suresh Jayaram addresses the issue of politics of the body through the work of six artists,and Ambuja Magaji’s video installation Body Desire discusses the desire for gender transformation through a eunuch doing make-up. Gayatri Sinha has selected Gigi Scaria’s Panic City that comments on the rapid construction in Delhi before the Commonwealth games,along with Manjunath Kamath’s Talk,which deals with the issue of fear and desire.