Akar Prakar Contemporary

Established in 2004 by Reena & Abhijit Lath, Akar Prakar Contemporary is one of the leading galleries promoting South Asian contemporary art today.

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To know more about Manir Mrittik's works, contact @PrakarAkar Delhi and @akarprakar Kolkata.

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"By politicising the domestic crafts of embroidery and crochet, Sadhukhan demands acknowledgement of women’s labour, which is undervalued or made invisible."- Nancy Adajania- Cultural Theorist and Curator,… https://t.co/3WtI2HT4Sn

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RATHER PROTECTING DREAM 2012 (detail)- work with the support of Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo
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"The rate of female foeticide is increasingly high in every layers of our society. Who is the culprit I don’t know. But… https://t.co/NSgiMwJ1hn

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"What looks like a Persian carpet or a Kashmiri namda, from a distance, erupts into open sores on closer scrutiny. The eye focuses on a pattern made of broken glass bangles; on wounds that refuse to be stemmed; on a… https://t.co/GWyHQzv2wo

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"For a long time now, nature has been the subject as well as the substance of Jayashree’s art. Her works draw sustenance from the organic materials she puts to use, collecting dry leaves and dry flowers, twigs and… https://t.co/R18XgGvpzX

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"Piyali Sadhukhan’s mixed-media works, sliding between drawing and sculpture, are robust, tenacious beings with whom you would trifle at your own peril. At one level, they belong to the family of quotidian domestic… https://t.co/u3AgRF2apg

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi Taking Selfie with Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom and Ireland, Empress of colonized India

This work is a response to Prime Minister Modi's International travels and his… https://t.co/iRqHGEqxkY

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"The whole gallery should be considered as one work. Almost all of them are about the same size. So, the idea is, Noah’s Ark. How Noah was told about the approaching deluge, and how he went about building a big boat;… https://t.co/KnGsJFT3CE

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”One of the most stunning works here is a response to the Sabrimalai crisis of 2018, when an all-male community of devotees barred women from entering the temple, claiming their presence would pollute the precinct… https://t.co/aNw2gfCAHO

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"What looks like a Persian carpet or a Kashmiri namda, from a distance, erupts into open sores on closer scrutiny. The eye focuses on a pattern made of broken glass bangles; on wounds that refuse to be stemmed; on a… https://t.co/1xtVycgZnl

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"Light, in his handling, is no longer the scorching tropical glare that bears down on us. Rather, it becomes diffuse, refracted, cloudy, and submarine."- Ranjit Hoskote

To know more about the artist Manish… https://t.co/UGKzB7HA0f

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”One of the most stunning works here is a response to the Sabrimalai crisis of 2018, when an all-male community of devotees barred women from entering the temple, claiming their presence would pollute the precinct… https://t.co/eNkrrVr4aM

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shieldartinitiativ and @PrakarAkar invite you to a talk "Acts of Erasure: Women, Labour and Violence" by Prof. Shukla Sawant in conjunction with Piyali Sadhukhan's solo exhibition 'Seeing is (Not) Believing' on May… https://t.co/Mj7zOxGg3I

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”One of the most stunning works here is a response to the Sabrimalai crisis of 2018, when an all-male community of devotees barred women from entering the temple, claiming their presence would pollute the precinct… https://t.co/61ndv9Y6WY

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Underground Talks are a series of conversations between artist Manish Pushkale and an eminent guest from the art scene each month. These talks will focus on subjects of burning interest to the public, giving the… https://t.co/hX0jgAwqoZ

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"One of the most stunning works here is a response to the Sabrimalai crisis of 2018, when an all-male community of devotees barred women from entering the temple, claiming their presence would pollute the precinct… https://t.co/Y69wx8f7eg

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"I would contend that Sadhukhan’s works reclaim the melodramatic, not in the manner of conventional Hindi films, but in the sense in which Mani Kaul parsed Ritwik Ghatak’s films, as “open[ing] the idea of melodrama… https://t.co/s7C6fGBaAi

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"Light, in his handling, is no longer the scorching tropical glare that bears down on us. Rather, it becomes diffuse, refracted, cloudy, and submarine."- Ranjit Hoskote

Visit @PrakarAkar Delhi or @akarprakar… https://t.co/DKHdOqmmCo

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"What looks like a Persian carpet or a Kashmiri namda, from a distance, erupts into open sores on closer scrutiny. The eye focuses on a pattern made of broken glass bangles; on wounds that refuse to be stemmed; on a… https://t.co/2qQDTsQwxX

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"It was the beginning of 2014 when I started working on this series inspired by ancient urban civilizations and their rich socio cultural elements. It is intriguing the way both time zones still co-exist amidst… https://t.co/WIKPxM31YW