This sculptural assemblage and painting by Atul Dodiya was part of his recent solo exhibition, 7000 Museums: A Project for the Republic of India at the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad City Museum, Mumbai, India.
The exhibition was part of the Museum’s curatorial series, ‘Engaging Traditions’, which encourages contemporary artists to work with the Museum’s history and collection.
‘The cabinet’ (a format that is often used by Dodiya) evokes a layered dialogue that includes,
photographs from Dodiya’s archives, paintings referencing artists, objects both found and sculpted by the artist, with varied conceptual frameworks from the Museum’s collection. They reference defining moments of history, art history as well as the semantics of museums and museum displays.