International Residency Aug-Sept 2003

Rohini Devasher — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 03:43:08 -0400

Perhaps in exchanges as these, cultural differences and similarities get highlighted.

Mithu referred to her image making as a process that has evolved as being opposed to the inorganic. The choice of medium and the process of making the image has often bordered on being autobiographical when placed in the public sphere. Using skills (embroidering, stitching etc) akin to and identified as art made by women Mithu, engages the viewer in a dialogue about self / identity / race / origin within a gender polemic.

International Residency Nov-Dec 2003

Rohini Devasher — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 03:23:46 -0400

The artists collectively demonstrated a diversity of concepts, methodologies and media.

Mamoon was trained as a painter, but his works have gradually shifted to issue based installations in specific environments that make a direct use of space in relation to objects / tools. These translate into signs describing intentions that change in the hands of the aggressors, as he has been a witness to in recent past, the context both personal and particular.