Experimenter presents No Race, No Colour, Sri Lankan artist Pushpakanthan Pakkiyarajah’s first solo exhibition in Mumbai. “Pan-African revolutionary leader and agronomist Amílcar Cabral’s critical humanism was established around an ethics of care for the soil, tracing coloniality’s roots in soil destruction and principles of extractivism—which in parallel perpetuates systemic violence and dehumanization of the colonized[i]. ‘To defend the land is to defend Man,’[ii] Cabral wrote in 1988, thereby centering the land as the first source to be protected and establishing a vital equation of coexistence for cultural, political and economic resistance to be sown and built for generations. It is his ecopolitical lessons that one recollects as ‘profound disturbances in the natural complex soil-life-climate’,[iii] which exacerbate through multiple wars, famine, and spiralling energy use in the proliferation of augmented intelligence within everyday life.” (‘Flowers amongst Ruination’ | Essay by Natasha Ginwala )
Find out more about the show here.