EXHIBITION 2 LAST

"Will you, beloved stranger?" by Raqs Media Collective is "Will you, beloved stranger?" by Raqs Media Collective isa visual adaptation of the poetic works of Isareli poet YehudaAmichai in Hebrew and Mahmoud Darwish in Arabic. The work parses the two bodies of text in English tocreate a continous stream where a fragment taken from one setof poems of Darwish is followed by another by Amichai. "When we were working on the project we had to justify thedifficult regimes in Israel, regimes such as one we are livingin. "India and Israel are parallel examples of tragedies ofpost-colonial world in which the presence of borders becameoccasions for massive tragedies," says Shuddhabrata Senguptaone of the founders of the collective. The text of the poetry in the film has also been inscribedin the form of perforations on translucent sheets of paper inHebrew and Arabic. Another exhibit at the show is a collection of photographstitled ‘Postcards from Europe’, clicked by artists fromGermany, Spain, Italy and Greece that depict the yearnings ofthose caught in the crossfire. The exhibition will run till September 15. PTI RJS TRS BSABKTRS