25 Sep Mañana en Bombay
Tejal Shah, Lethargy, 2007-08, archival digital photograph, 139x180cm
Please join us for the preview on Friday, September 26, 2008, 7-9 pm
Anxious as the visual arts equivalent of playwright Peter Handke¹s Offending the Audience (1966) may seem a tad hyperbolic, but rest assured it is anything but. With this exhibition one intends to mobilise Fluxus-like shenanigans, and by extension undercut the pristine and ritualised viewing process.
In the exhibition, the curator undergoes a makeover and transforms into the eponymous arbiter from the game Simon Says. In this newly comprehended role as Simon, the curator contrives the viewers¹ discomfort by compelling them to scrunch their eyebrows, scratch their heads, re-adjust their stance and the like. Anxious endeavours to challenge and offend the audience by bringing them face to face with a project that may just as well have transpired while Simon was sleeping. Be that as it may, certain queries are raised, albeit inadvertently. 2 drawings + 4 photographs + 11 paintings = 10 artists. This be the equation. Paintings, photographs and drawings are the chosen ones because their two-dimensionality has a default distance setting, which drops out of favour when read in relation to sculpture and installation.
Recently, Simon had enunciated the idea of post-visuality.…
