India Art Fair 2014: Womb To Tomb showcases Raghu Rai , Ram Rahman, Pablo Bartholomew and Amit Mehra

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Uma Nair
08 January 2014, 02:23 PM IST

Gallery Art Indus at the India Art Fair will have a special show that puts the spotlight on women. Gallery person Vijayalaxmi Dogra also a fashion designer requested me  to put together a show that straddles photographers and artists to do this special viewing. Womb To Tomb is about a subtle statement that looks at the struggles of women even as they deal with the violence and discrimination in their lives.

And Womb to Tomb will have a sampling of three iconic works by giant Raghu Rai and the genius photojournalist Pablo Bartholomew. Other than them there will also be an unveiling of a singular set of portraits of India's tribals by a young photographer Abhishek Biswas who works for India Today and a historic dargah study by the famed Pankaj Mistry as well as two sentinel works by Ram Rahman, Samit Das and 4 Kashmir studies by the famed Amit Mehra.

Rahgu Rai's 3 images straddle a period of 3 decades as the colossus gives us a 1973 image of Mother Teresa that reflects her expressionist fervour as she worked towards setting up her houses of Missionaries of Charity. There is also another black white splendour of 3 little nomads-innocence writ large on their faces. Taken in 1980 it reads Bazigar of Shadipur as it unveils a naïve and deeply rustic mooring with a simplicity that is at once attractive in a pensive sort of way. Rai's last image is that of the dance priestess Chandralekha taking a practice on the Merina Beach in Chennai. This is the only colour image but it has a haunting beauty about it because while the sands are bleached there is the poised Chandralekha watching her own choreography dressed in a cotton black sari her silver mane flowing behind her.

Rahgu Rai

Rahgu Rai

Also in the curated show are the works of Pablo Bartholomew. Pablo's surreal portraits of Arunachal women and Nagas will be part of the showing. Most evocative is the vertical study of Two Yimchunger women with a Khang (cane basket) , Kuttur village, Tuensang Dist. Nagaland. Ram Rahman's two black and whites are surreal studies of  women that echo the journey that brims on all kind of sufferings and reality distilled nuances-the first work is a resonant and deeply stirring image of Sridevi, Red Fort Lawn, 1980's and the second is a shadow filled beauty taken at the Abbass Studio, Delhi, 2003. Ram's images have a vintage vitality about them even as they present a flashback in time.

Pablo Bartholomew

Ram Rahman

The newest studies will be that of young Abhishek Biswas who has studied India's tribes for the past 8 years travelling into communities that most of don't know about. His study of the old woman with her nose studs is a dramatic shot that will make you sit up. Her eyes veil all her struggles and her self inflicted violence which she has lived with. A number of unusual studies will be part of the show. These portraits will be sold as limited edition prints at the booth.


Abhishek Biswas

Amit Mehra of Kashmir fame gives 4 exquisite images for this curation. The images of praying women at the dargahas well as a singular image of a doll frozen in the snow adds to the haunting and heightened intensity of the pathos of a woman's plight in a world torn by terrorism. 

Amit Mehra

Amongst the photography images is Pankaj Mistry's elegiac shot of a Dargah which was used as the cover in the catalogue of his show at Art Heritage in Delhi. Through these unpeopled images Pankaj explores a paradoxical irony, "the place of worship and the individual's relationship with himself and others" by constructing large pieces, which serve as metaphor for culture. He takes the totemic quality of a single space's ability to express one's hopes and ambitions and put them on display inside a staccato set of statements. The dargah then is "a container that has parts of old sculptural instincts in it, and parts of those old sculptural insets have been eroded a few times at least. The transformation points to the failure and despair that accompanies the hope and ambition of one's goals, and ultimately, the "contemplation of the history of your hopes and dreams and ambitions." And the unspoken debris left behind when all is unrealized.

Pankaj Mistry


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