According to Kiran Nadar, founder, KNMA, the biggest consideration was to select artists who have had a long-standing engagement with Gandhi. Seven such photographs of the Mumbai-based artist, in which she has donned kinds of armour to highlight the violation of the body in public and private spaces, can be seen at the India Pavilion. Purkayastha is one of the few artists who is showing a new work at the India Pavilion. In the installation, on view at the India Pavilion, it feels like 2,500 of these padukas are inching their way across the walls and the ground. Haripura Posters (1937)These were created when Gandhi commissioned Nandalal Bose to decorate the pandal for the session of the Indian National Congress at Haripura.

Source: Mint May 10, 2019 06:22 UTC