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24/1/2015

We are not your Native Informants!

Clark House Initiative, Bombay

With:
Prabhakar Pachpute
Nikhil Raunak
Amol Patil
Rupali Patil
Sachin Bonde
Yogesh Barve
Naresh Kumar
Janek Simon
Justin Ponmany
Poonam Jain

During the period of the Biennale & the Art Fair, in view of visits by Curators, Collectors, Galleryists, and enthusiasts, we present a selection of works, that are representative of the artists practice but not representative of their nationalities and cultural contexts.
The works refute the idea of a visual exotic, arising from the notion proposed by Janek Simon that exoticism furthers distances among people through exaggeration that only befits a travelogue.
As participants of an arena that is global, members from Clark House propose their refusal of interests in identity, but rather nihilistically propose their practices not offering the very pleasure that distance allows, even though the works arise from questions of inequality, identities and representation.

- Curated by Sumesh Sharma, Ezhupunna, 2015.

Caption: 'Detritus', Amol Patil 2012 in 'ICU Jest' , Kochi Muziris Biennale and 'L'exigence de la Saudade', 2013, Kadist Art Foundation Paris. 'Detritus' is a work where Amol places a tuft of hair on the spool of a walkman, by doing so it forces us to deal with a human residue considered impure among funerary traditions. Here he refers to the sanitation workers of Bombay and the detritus of a the caste system that intervenes into our daily secular life in India.

Clark House Initiative
c/o RBT Group, Ground Floor, Clark House building, Colaba
8 Nathalal Parekh Marg (Old Wodehouse Road), Bombay 400039, India.
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