TARQ is pleased to announce Apnavi Makanji’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery, featuring an all new body of works in graphite, collage, and video. Centred on themes of queer ecology, this show will be their first after being awarded the prestigious FEMS Prize in 2024¹.
Building on their series, Appropriation Disinformation- Nature and the Body Politic², Makanji negotiates with the artificial notions of ownership of natural resources through political borders by using historical maps, overlayed with collaged organisms. They see maps as cartographies of conquest, that do not reflect reality, nature, vulnerability, other species or terrain. Here, Makanji also looks at the altered migration patterns of species driven by climate change, highlighting the interconnectedness of these issues. The idea is to subvert maps as colonial instruments of extraction by covering them with the very subjects that they precisely lack or only display in words or numbers.
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