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Weaving Old and New Tales

The online digital exhibitions platform, IN Touch presents a reflexive space to contemplate range of artists and narratives.

Oct 3, 2020

The new segment of In Touch-4, gently makes its presence felt amid the pandemic where people are locked away from the world as they know it, isolated and placed in solitary but seemingly safe environments. The galleries selection this time around seems to be with an emphasis on words that evoke introspection and self-reflection, encouraging the viewership to look beyond the obvious physical reflection of the self, rather towards examining the inner core that is often hidden from one’s own view.

In Delhi it is Gallery Espace presents us with Overwrought Fancies a collection of digital prints by Chitra Ganesh and B. Manjunath Kamath, two artists who are at very different ends of the spectrum of found imagery, popular culture and the collective subconscious as they reflect their concerns by reclaimed and re-engineered imagery.

“Why certain stories easily proliferated and accrued power, while others remained absent, or even actively suppressed?” asks Chitra Ganesh, a diaspora artist based in New York, but with an Indian-Tamilian childhood and background that fed off classical music and dance and of cour

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