Title- Discourses of masculinity, sexual violence, and "other" bodies In Anti-capitalistic societies, it is common to understand geopolitical issues through personal narratives. The so-called "Will do as I wish" "none of your business" " private matters" "my pride" concepts that certain members( Religious Fundamentalist, Police, Enjoyers of Male privilege, Capitalists) advocated without much thought, in Neo-liberal India and in the regime of the current government is worth questioning. We live in a multicultural, multi-religious and ethnically diverse society where the personal and inter-personal is oftentimes political so if we continue to operate with this lasseiz-fair attitude, then the worst affected are the marginalized and voiceless such as Women, Children, Muslims, and Dalits, etc., Through Individual characters and stories, I wish to exhibit and make the viewer think about the politics and paradigms that each of these individuals are/were pawns to. My characters turmoil is universal and the violence is not specific to a language or a country. This is an ongoing project. Your reactions while looking at the pictures will be photographed as capturing the reaction of the working class, common Indian is what I am aiming for ultimately. Institutional problems are prohibiting me from taking this step. Hence, I am having this intermediary exhibit to understand what are the potential challenges.
Most of the images are visual memories of what I heard from people I met in places across India (Gujarat in the summer of 2013), read, and some of the people I know personally. I consider this exhibit as a social responsibility towards the victims and in general to voice my opinion of what it can mean to live in times of uncertainty and fear.