This image captures Geeta Kapur speaking during the exhibition opening of 'subTerrain: Artworks in the Cityfold'. The exhibition was curated by Geeta Kapur in House of World Cultures, Berlin. In the back are artists Atul Dodiya and Navjot Altaf. On the wall is a painting by Jitish Kallat.
Regarding the exhibition, the curator writes:
'My focus is on art practice in the social, political and psychic 'subterrain' of third world 'global cities'. Here too the contemporary is an inevitable part of the deconstructed history of modernity that valorized the ambiguously masked artist and set up an elaborate masquerade around the theme of what Freud called 'civilization and its discontents'. This civilizational discourse was furthered by the revolutionary working-class history of the twentieth century and, subsequently, by the history of decolonisation that added new contours to the very idea of civilization by revealing the vast limitations of a Europe-centred universe. The latter half of the twentieth century saw the emergence of differently situated modern artists all across the third world whose acknowledged presence shaped a hermeneutic retake on the (political) unconscious of the contemporary. It necessitated the relatively privileged interlocutor – the artist – to assume the position of a conspicuously underprivileged subject of an unequal social order, and this led to reasonably located (in regional, national and third world terms) interventions in and through art.'
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Navjot ALTAF,  Atul DODIYA,  Geeta KAPUR
survey exhibition,  politics,  curatorial practice,  postcolonialism,  globalisation,  Global South
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