Friday 7th August, 4pm — 5pm : Guided Tour at Christie’s:The Meeting Ground: Scenes from the KNMA Collection

Please join us for an exclusive members’ guided tour at Christie’s for their current exhibition The Meeting Ground: Scenes from the KNMA Collection, a major institutional exhibition as part of Christie’s summer exhibition series, bringing South Asian artist histories to wider audiences.

This event will take place at 8 King St, London SW1Y 6QT

Presented in collaboration with Christie's, The Meeting Ground is curated by Akansha Rastogi with Preeti Bahadur, Avijna Bhattacharya, Premjish Achari and Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi. The exhibition will bring together works across modern and contemporary practices alongside folk and indigenous artistic expressions from South Asia. 

The Meeting Ground invites viewers into an unfolding of several ‘scenes’. It begins as dialogue and contestations between modernists including M.F. Husain, S.H. Raza, Jeram Patel, K.C.S. Paniker, K.G. Subramanyan and K. Ramanujam and different centres of artistic creation in India from the 1950s to today. 

This historical focus from the early twentieth century expands into a scene offering performative metaphors, where artists such as Neha Choksi, LN Tallur, and Simryn Gill reflect on how individuals and institutions hold forms of listening and mark-making to keep memories agile. 

The third strand of the exhibition foregrounds protagonists like Zainul Abedin, Anwar Jalal Shemza, Zarina Hashmi, F.N. Souza, Bani Abidi and others who inhabit multiple homelands and shared worlds, often refusing to belong to places defined by the severity of modern maps. 

Interwoven with these movements are masters of indigenous traditions, such as Jangarh Singh Shyam, Jivya Soma Mashe, and the collaboration between Gauri Gill and Rajesh Vangad. 

Reserved exclusively for members of Shoreditch Arts Club only. Please RSVP by contacting the team via email.

LN Tallur, Interference, 2019, 4K video 

Interference was made in partnership with the Junagadh Museum in Gujarat, India. 

Special thanks to the Junagadh Museum; Varia Kiran, Videography; Vandita Jain, sound engineer; and Bhanu Pratap Singh. 

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