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  • India Art Fair 2019 | Slow | Group Show
  • — Neerja Kothari
  • — Samanta Batra Mehta
  • — Sangita Maity
  • — Tayeba Begum Lipi
  • — Omer Wasim & Saira Sheikh
  • — Ayesha Singh
  • — Khushbu Patel
  • — Fariba S. Alam
  • — Zoya Siddiqui
  • — Sonia Khurana
  • Not for Me 2 Not for Me 2
  • Payal Business Center, Surrey Payal Business Center, Surrey
  • Logic of Birds III (from the staged photo/ video series, logic of birds) Logic of Birds III (from the staged photo/ video series, logic of birds)
  • Somnambulists VI (from the staged photo series, lying down on the ground) Somnambulists VI (from the staged photo series, lying down on the ground)
  • The Flat Apple (deteriorating…) The Flat Apple (deteriorating…)
  • “Starshooter, Shuttling Between Death and Miraj” “Starshooter, Shuttling Between Death and Miraj”
  • Hybrid Drawings Hybrid Drawings
  • The Play of the Divine Trickster The Play of the Divine Trickster
  • Not for Me 3 Not for Me 3
  • The Colombian Boots The Colombian Boots
  • The Tank Top The Tank Top
  • My Wedding Suitcase My Wedding Suitcase
  • Living with Different Horizons Living with Different Horizons
  • Manmade Landscape II Manmade Landscape II
  • Between The Path and Me Between The Path and Me
  • Stuck in Minute Johnson Vermont Stuck in Minute Johnson Vermont
  • Murmuration (# 1) at 1,24,800 Murmuration (# 1) at 1,24,800
  • Murmuration (# 2) at 51,900 Murmuration (# 2) at 51,900
  • Murmuration (# 5) at 4600, 5000, 6500 & 5500 Murmuration (# 5) at 4600, 5000, 6500 & 5500
  • 1371.1 1371.1
  • 1371.2 1371.2

In keeping with our commitment to cutting-edge and critical artistic practices, Shrine empire brings to its audience a curated booth exploring the idea of ‘slowness’ through a range of exciting new commissions. Speed was the ultimate promise of modernity — with its fetish for anarchic newness while gesturing towards a singular temporality that cannot comprehend non-western histories, indigenous wisdom or ecological backlash. Arguably, rather than concur with the slow pace of Darwinian evolutionary rhythm, impatient progress has cumulatively steeped us in the excesses of technophilic developmental models, rapidly amplifying inequities of capital, and estrangement from sensuality. These blind spots in the dominant narrative of Modernism is perhaps most emphatically revealed in Marinetti’s Furturist Manifesto where valorization of speed is concurrent with the glorification of war and contempt for women — antithetical to politics widely nurtured by contemporary art. How can we formulate a vocabulary of resistance that is aware of heterogeneous post-colonial time, polyphonic spaces and departures from the libidinal post-industrial patterns of consumption? Critiquing modernity would entail a critique of the vocabulary of speed. This exhibition proposes to refract chronological time to reveal the eternities it conceals — to slow down and immerse in luminal spaces, sensorial anomalies, and incommensurable stories.

‘Slow’ is a message in a bottle tossed into the open sea, subject to non-calibrated currents, the steep crescendo of hurricanes and the gravitational pull of the moon. It is attuned to the rhythms of nature, contra-modernities, and a flux of differential phenomena including compassion for the triumphs and detritus of modernity. ‘Slow’, is a sensorial engagement with the modern ethical and ecological problems offered by speed, that is more telling about language, perception and connectedness than the rapidity of a text message in a hyper-networked universe that is defiantly nostalgic of historical err. ‘Slow’ is a sensibility, always relational, in the state of becoming and contrapuntal to the finality of propaganda.

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18th July 2024

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