26/11, ALTBL, Bangalore- an exhibition; looking back to 2010
Around the year 2010 Bangalore saw an increase in contemporary art events and there were many more new galleries opened around the turn of the decade. Some of the spaces still seemed elusive for those artists who were lesser known or beginners. Some alternative venues and spaces have formed by then such as Samuha and Shanti Road 1 were a couple of them. The ALTBL was conceived in the same order, as an alternative art space, an art collective, and an interactive space for photographers and artists to meet and exhibit their work in an informal manner. The objective of ALTBL was to function as a facilitator between a set of stakeholders in the art world that include artists, connoisseurs, critics and writers, curators, gallery owners, and buyers. The show 26/11, the second event from ALTBL, held during 26-28 November 2010 was a humble step towards this.
My work in this show was titled 'Basic Alphabets'. It was a way of locating a set of visual options, and images that speak primary characteristics of a culture, to be precise 'conflict'. Conflict is a conceptual thread that runs through most of my works since 2000. The exhibit in this show was a metaphor intended to reflect the implicit conflict within both the existing as well as evolving cultures. It seems to me that it is the protagonist himself who eventually turns out to be the antihero. This is the irony of our times.
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