A show that represents India to the West through the lens of Gen X artists
Is it the chilli, the Bollywood siren, the little child dressed as a God or the Sadhu in a loincloth that is emblematic of India? Or is it the carefully crafted Madhubani paintings depicting the growing metropolis, the psychedelic canvases capturing the chaos of a crowded mall or a hybrid between a Bulbul and a machine?
The exhibition titled 'India Awakens: under the Banyan Tree' plays to and subverts some of the cliches that form the rhizome that is India.
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