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Making/Unmaking, Vadhera Art Gallery, New Delhi

This installation revolved around an imaginary character called Indubala. It was an attempt to deny or confuse an object’s political, social, dictionary bound defined identity. The manipulation of self-images into another dimension and pretense of a non-existing character that has been created by the pressure/demand of  society, is a way of showing how we limit ourselves. By destroying each character and objects’ defined identity, a new identity is given birth.

Usage of absurd humor in the work made familiar situations surreal with all the manipulated caricaturist animated images open to ridicule by the audience. In a way, the humor acted as an invitation to the audience to play and interact with the suggested ideas and meanings. The characters showed the egoistic self importance rather than the individualistic self, provoking the viewer to question our values, assumptions of what constitutes our identity in our society. They potentially revealed and denied our social, emotional ,political, fundamental identities and cultural values through laughter. All the imageries and objects were interconnected with a surreal time, space, place and  basic human experiences and perception towards this ‘real’ world.

The photographic images of the portraits were all collected from artist’s travel trips to different corners of the world that became ways of
realising/ finding/discovering herself as part of her work. Old traditional Bengali novel names and surreal imaginative time period put next to each character generated a conflict between different realities. Finally, hanging them on high and low pedestal with less light created an unpredictable dramatic atmosphere.

projects

2023
mOTHERTONGUE
iWITNESS
“I am from there. I am from here”
mOTHER I SPELL YOU WRONG

2022
Until you 206

2021
Be Beyond Being
Until You..

2020
Uncatharsis
BERKELEY FOR SALE !!
QR
Unlockdown

2019
UnMansplaining
Lunch is cancelled
How to be a SUCKcessful Artist
100 (un)silent ways

2018
UnMYthU: UnKIND(s) Alternatives

2017
Unlynching
Sounding Drawing
Unline
Unhome in City IF Angels
We Unfinish each other
I Replace You
Embodied Language
Return Gifts: For Sale

2016
(Left Untold)
Aphasia
Kenopsia
Mis(s)Guide

2015
Tongue that won't stop wounding
Unwor(l)dly
Nonversation

2014
Border Unseen
Shop Lifting
I have only one language; it is not mine
Poems Declined
A ° V O I D

2013
I Am a Poet
Deafening Silence
Same River Twice
Artist: Unknown
Cannibal Lullaby

2012
I am not me
Devoid
In House Adoption
Twinkle Twinkle

2011
MOU (Museum of Unbelongings)
Once upon a sari
Ahh Taj !!
For(e)play
In Transit
No thing

2010
graffiti
Black Candy (Iforgotmypenisathome)
Unwanted

2009
Abstract Cabinet
Dropping Gold, Dropping Gold
Me two

2008
Nothing lost in translation
I dig,I look down

2007
Non spinal
Freemithu 2007-ongoing
Half Full
Kamdhenu
Indubala and her Unbelongings

2006
I chew, I bite, The Unknown
Icarus
All that's solid melts into air
It's good to be a queen
Letters on the beach
Drawing Room
Ephemeral Affair
Being Anastacia

2005
Spiritual materialistic

2004
No star, No land, No word, No Commitment
Breathing
Burnt by the sun
Outside the war zone

2003
I hate pink
Twilight Zone

2002
No way out

2001
Unbelongings

2000
Can we really look beyond the map?
Hair Unbelongings