Yes We Can Kiss Privately and Publicly in India (Exhibition view)

This image captures a photography series titled Yes We Can Kiss Privately and Publicly in India by Shantanu Lodh and Manmeet as shown in the exhibition titled 'crossing generations: diVERGE.'

In 2003, Gallery Chemould in Bombay commemorated its fortieth anniversary with an exhibition spanning four generations of Indian artists. The exhibition, titled 'crossing generations: diVERGE,' was co-curated by Geeta Kapur and Chaitanya Sambrani, with over 50 artists' artworks on display at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Bombay.

The curatorial note by Geeta Kapur and Chaitanya Sambrani states: 'diVERGE presents an adventure of crossings and sign-posts them to point in both, and in many, directions at once. It presents smooth and awkward crossovers on unevenly charted routes. We hope to configure artworks to explore what these new meanings might (and might-not, after all) be in what is undoubtedly a most volatile moment for Indian contemporary art.'

Participating Artists included Tyeb Mehta, S.H. Raza, V.S. Gaitonde, Bhupen Khakhar, Arpita Singh, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Jogen Chowdhury, Gieve Patel, Sudhir Patwardhan, Nasreen Mohamedi, Nilima Sheikh, V. Vishwanadhan, Prabhakar Barwe, Rummana Hussain, Pushpamala N., Navjot Altaf, Atul Dodiya, Anju Dodiya, Mehlli Gobhai, Shilpa Gupta, Subodh Gupta, N.S. Harsha, Ranbir Kaleka, Jitish Kallat, Reena Saini Kallat, Amar Kanwar, Bharti Kher, Sonia Khurana, Riyas Komu, Shakuntala Kulkarni, Shantanu Lodh, Kaushik Mukhopadhyay, Shibu Natesan, Priti Paul, Gargi Raina, N.N. Rimzon, Sharmila Samant, Tushar Joag, T.V. Santosh, Gigi Scaria, Ketaki Sheth, Sudarshan Shetty, Dayanita Singh, Vivan Sundaram, Surekha, L.N. Talllur, Vasudha Thozhur and Hema Upadhyay.

On the eve of the exhibition, The Perfect Frame, a book by Karin Zitzewitz, was released. The book documents Kekoo Gandhy's crossing of generations and his participation in the modern Indian art scene over the past four decades.

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2003

Creation place

India

Medium

Colour photographs

Dimension

Each 20cm x 26cm (album 28cm x 36cm)

Content type

artwork documentation

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Yes We Can Kiss Privately and Publicly in India (Exhibition view)