Every Soiled Page

Neha Choksi, Detailed view of Touching Integrity (Larch) 7, 2016

An exhibition of artworks that invokes our relationship to reading and remembering as collective acts of resistance. The title of the show is inspired from a verse by poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz written during his imprisonment in Montgomery Central Jail in Pakistan. The show highlights the different surfaces and materials on which memories, traces, imprints and songs reside, inviting us to think about how we spread them further.

Curated by Sabih Ahmed, the exhibition features works from the Prabhakar Collection by artists Anju Dodiya, Astha Butail, Neha Choksi, Praneet Soi and Sunil Padwal, and a new commission of a performance-installation by Inder Salim that expands the exhibition into a space of readings, recitals, inscriptions and annotations.

Artist Biography

(b. 1964, lives and works in Mumbai, India). Anju Dodiya regards her paintings as acts of rebellion and exorcism by use the self-portrait as a way to explore conflicts between inner life and external reality.

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(b. 1977, lives and works in Gurgaon, India). Conflating the roles of artist and researcher, Astha Butail’s art is born out of an intensive research process along with intuition which sets the pace of constructing rich circular narratives that explore the history of the archival oral form, the present elements in nature, the history of myth, and the fragments of lost knowledge and language.

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(b. 1973, lives and works in California, USA, and Mumbai, India). Neha Choksi embraces a confluence of disciplines, including performance, video, installation, and sculpture.

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(b. 1971, lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Kolkata, India). Praneet Soi's practice ranges across painting, drawing, video and site-specific installations.

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(b. 1968, lives and works in Mumbai, India). Sunil Padwal’s art practice reflects on the unsettling nature of contemporary urban life through a series of complex drawings.

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(b. 1960, lives and works in Delhi, India). Inder Salim is a conceptual performance artist and poet practicing for over 25 years.

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