Multitudes - A Group Show by Various Artists June 18, 2009

Multitudes - A Group Show by Various Artists. In collaboration with Zen Studio Gallery and Artflute.com. This exhibition is an effort to bring together multiple concerns with regard to the field of cultural production onto a single platform. If anything is traceable as common in this exhibition, it would be the social commitment of the participating artists and its organisers. As the title indicates, this show foresees a possibility of heterogeneous being and becoming with its distinctness and difference and thereby imagines difference and the right to differ as the quality of the world. The participants of this exhibition and their varying subjective locations and concerns themselves make this show a defender of the right to differ. The political concerns of the participating artists range from engaging with broader questions of gender, sexuality, caste, religion, community and class to the specific questions of violence in the public sphere and everyday life, and systemic marginalisations at large. Many works in this exhibition engage with multiple issues and are also concerned with the linguistic as well as formal aspects of visual idioms. Like in multitudes, these works generate, re-generate and de-generate meanings through active collaborations, contestations and resistances. The current exhibition was originally organised by the Zen Studio Gallery, Eramalloor at the Lalit Kala Akademi in Kochi, Kerala in March 2009. Participating artists: Alok Bal, Ashutosh Bharadwaj, Benoy P.J, Chinnan Vinod, Deepak Wankade, Joseph Mathew, Justin Ponmany, Jyotikumar, K.K. Muhamed, K.P. Pradeepkumar, Kabita Mukhopadyay, Kanak Shashi, Lokesh Kodke, MohanDas N.N, Naniah Chettira, Nishad M.P, Prabhakaran K, Prakakta Potnis, Pramod Prakash, Puja Vaish, Raju Patel, Rashmi Mala, Reji K.P, Riyas Komu, Rollie Mukherjee, Sathyanand Mohan, Saumya Ananthakrishna, Savi Sawarkar, Shefalee Jain, Sreedevi T.R, Sreeja P., Sunil A.P., T.V Santhosh, Vasudevan Akkitham & Venu R.

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