Elements from this work were first shown in the exhibition entitled 'Memorial: an installation with photographs and sculpture' (1993). This image captures a reconfiguration of objects featured in that exhibition, completed in 1995. The artwork was eventually also remade in 2000, and was shown in the exhibition entitled 'Bombay/Mumbai' in 'Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis' (2001) at Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom.
Excerpt from Kamala Kapoor, The Art Of Vivan Sundaram, Lustre Press, Roli Books, New Delhi, 2002:
Excerpt from Kamala Kapoor, The Art Of Vivan Sundaram, Lustre Press, Roli Books, New Delhi, 2002:
'The photographic image of an anonymous victim of the '92-'93 Mumbai riots is enshrined/compacted in a box that resembles the metal container on the road seen in the original news photograph. Mounted on an everyday municipal trolley, the split-open configuration can also be interpreted as a compressed coffin. Serious irony underlies the allegorical/documentary mode of this sculpture that enjoins the viewer to contemplate the death of a person, and that of humanity itself.'
The photograph used in this work is courtesy of The Times of India. It was taken by Hoshi Jal in Bombay, January 1993.
Exhibition history: ‘Memorial: an installation with photographs and sculpture,’ AIFACS Gallery, New Delhi; 1993; Sakshi Gallery, Melange Art and Design Centre, Bombay; 1996, Illustrated catalogue.
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1995
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Acrylic sheet, steel, black and white photograph (by Hoshi Jal, Times of India, Bombay, 23 February 1993)
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106.7cm x 292.1cm x 104.1cm
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