Two generations after the exultation of Independence and the concurrent horrors of Partition, contemporary artists mine the uneasy history of photography in India as a means to challenge outmoded narratives, share hidden stories, and make personal connections with tradition. Taking history into their own hands, figures such as Nandan Ghiya, Gauri Gill, Jitish Kallat, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Madhuban Mitra and Manas Bhattacharya, Pushpamala N., Raqs Media Collective, Vivan Sundaram, and Surekha draw on a diverse range of sources, from ethnographic photographs made at the height of the British occupation to hand-painted studio portraits and stills from Bollywood movies. Weighing the influence of the global against the draw of the local, these artists embrace tradition and innovation as covalent rather than competitive forces. Marking the US debut of several of the featured artists, Postdate: Photography and Inherited History in India deepens our understanding of the legacy of colonialism and celebrates new and socially engaged modes of image-making in South Asia. Published in association with the San Jose Museum of Art

Postdate: Photography and Inherited History in India

Arts & Photography

Krane, Susan

Throckmorton, Jodi

Gupta, Atreyee

Gupta, Latika

Raqs Media Collective

History & Criticism

University of California Press

Seepage

Individual Artists

Sternber Pr

We seem to know more about far-away galaxies than we do about the bottom of our oceans. This can also be said about our relationship to the future and the contemporary, where the distant future can seem more familiar than the deep present. When searching for the present, we must ask how to dive in without drowning in todays currents. When do we surface, ride the current, or even stay afloat? These are questions that Raqs Media Collective asks in this series on contemporaneity, guided by a motley collection of figures lost and found in the turbulence of their practice.

We Are Here, but Is It Now?: The Submarine Horizons of Contemporaneity (Contemporary Condition)

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