[Reader-list] Inside/Out - Photo Exhibition examining gender spaces - Dec. 2009, Mumbai

[Chintan]

Haven't attached the images that came with the exhibition invite. If you're
interested, mail Sanjiv. He should be happy to share them with you.

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From: Sanjiv Valsan <sanjiv.valsan at gmail.com>


 *Press release* *
Inside/Out*

The Strand Art Room presents *Inside/Out, *an exhibition curated by Georgina
Maddox and featuring the work of four emerging art photographers: *Sanjiv
Valsan, Aparna Jayakumar, Poulomi Basu and Meghanad Ganpule*.The project
examines existing gender spaces and emerging challenges of transgressions,
interventions and tensions created in the existing social fabric. Even
though their approach and style is extremely diverse, the photographers
share a subconscious predilection and sociological appetite that leads them
to aspects of the city, wherein lurk the mysterious codes of gender and
class, operating its twin dichotomies. *

Inside/Out* explores a mosaic of intimate and public spaces. We move from
the heavily codified suburban train compartment to Mumbai’s red-light areas,
where men solicit the company of eunuchs; from the aquarium-esque barber’s
shop to the secret assembly line of the beauty salon; the shop-window to the
trinket kiosk.

Meanwhile, in pockets of female householder identity, thick with melancholy
and isolation, the balcony and flickering television screen are the only
windows to elsewhere. Desires form the heady mix of dreams that run the
city.*

Preview:* Sunday, 20th Dec, 2009, 7pm onwards*
Exhibition: Monday, 21st Dec to Thursday, 31st Dec, 2009*
  *Venue:* The Strand Art Room, Ground Floor, Ama House, Brahma Kumari Marg,
Near Strand Cinema, Colaba, Mumbai  400 005 tel. 91-22-32991008,
+91-9920021008

 *For more details, invites to the preview and high resolution images,
contact Georgina Maddox (+91-9711368909), Sanjiv Valsan
(+91-9892212133) or Huzefa
Bangdiwala (+91-9867205595)*