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Kanishka Raja: Indian Yellow

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Kanishka Raja's immersive installation Indian Yellow, which tackles India's Gujarat carnage of 2002, greets viewers at the door with figures from an idyllic British colonial diorama. Inside, Raja's paintings juxtapose images of "Bal" Kasha Thackeray — leader of the Hindu nationalist party Shiv Sena, and vilifier of non-Hindus — with the terrified face of Muslim citizen Qutubuddin Ansari, whose weeping, pleading eyes became the defining image of the riots. Each painting bears the interlaced pattern of window grills from the destroyed Babri Masjid mosque in a quiet remembrance of the conflict that rocked modern India and left hundreds dead.

Note: The artist speaks about the installation at a reception on Fri Mar 21 (6:30pm).

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