Instant Manifestos

Last Updated:January 13, 2014, 09:17 IST

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‘As a direct response to neglect, content decided to disappear... like a spurned lover tried as a second option, the message will agree to be wooed only for the chance to slap you in the face. For when you face it, it will be empty. The spurned lover will leave behind a hologram of herself and when you address the hologram, it will burst like a balloon’

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An exhibition curated by Himali Singh Soin brings together 27 aesthetic manifestos that reflect on art and are abstract objects of art in themselves. Each of these is on a single sheet of A4 size paper, which the artists were told to use as a studio standard. The lack of objects in the exhibition commands pause and reflection, as does Soin’s own poetic and rambling manifesto (extracted above) on the manifestos she has commissioned. Featured artists include Zuleikha Chaudhari, Neha Choksi, Raqs Media Collective, Sahej Rahal, Pors & Rao, Ranbir Kaleka, Aradhana Seth and Bharti Kher, among others.