THE MUMBAI TWELVE -Midnight Tea @ Tao Art Gallery & Lakeeren Gallery Mumbai-December 2012

THE  MUMBAI TWELVE -Midnight Tea  @ Tao Art Gallery & Lakeeren Gallery Mumbai-December 2012

Video Installation and Poetry Performance

Tao Gallery and Lakeeren Gallery Mumbai

Saturday December 22, 2012

 

AN ODE TO NEEL DARPAN

My video installation for the Midnight Tea in Mumbai is inspired by a literary text ‘Neel Darpan’ (1860) written by Dinbandhu Mitra. I will be constructing a narrative of the play ‘Neel Darpan’ in poetry of words performing and examining the period where the indigo farmers died of hunger ,unsung and unheard . The video installation builds on my art work from ‘Indigo Narrative’ series 2009-12.”

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