{"id":9136,"date":"2010-08-02T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T07:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/?p=9136"},"modified":"2025-07-14T12:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T12:53:07","slug":"phantoroman-skirmish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/index.php\/2010\/08\/02\/phantoroman-skirmish\/9136","title":{"rendered":"phantoroman: Skirmish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-4fc3f8e1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:21px\"><em><strong>phantoroman: SKIRMISH<br>Shown at: Experimenter Gallery, Kolkata (2010)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:15px\"><em>Laser-cut acrylic over inkjet on Hahnem\u00fchle FineArt Baryta paper <br>Series of 8, each 40 x 60 cm<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:17px\"><em>Skirmish\u00a0<\/em>is a brief, unhappy, love story with pictures and text, another of Raqs\u2019 forays into the photo-roman form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:17px\"><em>Skirmish&nbsp;<\/em>tells the story of an imagined estranged couple fighting a coded war of messages against themselves. 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