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Ways of Seeing: A Historic Exhibition

February 5-March 7, 2021

DAG, The Claridges Hotel, APJ Abdul Kalam Rd, New Delhi, Delhi, India

DAG presents Ways of Seeing, a historic exhibition that focuses on one of the most contested spaces in Indian art – the gaze – featuring over 150 works by female and male artists paralleling the modern art movement in India. 

Almost equally divided into parts – the first, featuring Women Artists, begins with the unheralded but important Sunayani Devi to Devyani Krishna and Amrita Sher-Gil, featuring 22 artists in all including Mrinalini Mukherjee, B. Prabha, Madhvi Parekh, Anupam Sud, Gogi Saroj Pal, Navjot, Arpana Caur and Rekha Rodwittiya. While a number of them explore the nude body—including the male nude—the gaze is not avaricious but is intended to be part of a narrative that takes humanitarianism into account. 

Women as Muse, the second part, featuring M. V. Dhurandhar, Nandalal Bose, Jamini Roy, D. P. Roy Chowdhury, George Keyt, K. H. Ara, F. N Souza, Krishen Khanna, M. F. Husain and Jogen Chowdhury among the 32 artists chosen, focuses only on these artists’ studies of women as a subject. The interesting layering and complexity of the exhibition opens up the space for conversations not just in art but in all popular culture.

To view the exhibition online, click here.