By

Paribartana Mohanty

Contributor

.

Item Type

Book

Serial

16213

Publisher

Shrine Empire

Description

50p.

Summay

Paribartana Mohanty’s artistic inquiry into the material and symbolic violence of state-led demolitions spans over a decade — from his works on the demolition of the Hall of Nations at Pragati Maidan (2014–2018) to his current large-format pointillist paintings on the erasure of Kathputli Colony (2018–2025). Mohanty extends these concerns through aesthetic strategies of fragmentation, displacement, and montage; mirroring the repeated violence inflicted both on the internationalist imagination and on the urban poor. He paints a particular moment of displacement and demolition of Kathputli Colony in West Delhi in 2017, that had been home to hundreds of traditional performers — puppeteers, musicians, magicians, acrobats — a community of artists with long genealogies of itinerant cultural labour. As a living archive of performance traditions, the colony held a paradoxical position: largely invisible to the cultural elite, yet consistently exploited as a symbol of India’s "folk" vitality.

DDC Classification No.

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Accession No.

16213

Current Location

Neeti Bagh

Shelving location

57

Status

Available

Category

Conemporary Art

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