Vadehra Art Gallery presents, A Show of Hands, In Memoriam, a special exhibition held in memoriam of beloved artist Gieve Patel, curated by respected poet, art critic and cultural theorist Ranjit Hoskote.
A celebrated cornerstone of the Indian art community, Gieve Patel passed away in 2023. His oeuvre exemplified a passionate concern for the psychological complexities of the subaltern human condition, surviving their indistinct everydayness and emerging resilient in the face of hardship, inequality and violence. Patel’s compositions ascribe a narrative depth to observed realities in a steadily modernizing post-colonial India, particularly around his home city of Mumbai, articulated in charged arrangements of imbued forms, performative actions and emotional consequences that invoke the reactive underbelly of cultural strife.
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