31/01/2021
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Posted • Most beginnings of anything start with a connection. And before Mumbai Art Room there was connection via a memorable meeting in Lohdi Gardens, New Delhi. The curator Phalguni Giuliani had got in touch for an interview. When we met in this historical site, none of us knew where we might be headed together. Â
As we sat in the twilight of this incredibly beautiful garden (albeit we were all struggling with the dense air pollution), we touched upon many topics, a lot of them culturally specific to the political climate in Denmark and India, but it also felt like this conversation had more universal themes to it. For instance how changes in national identity can be led by the altering of charged objects such as flags. As we were talking about the political ground we stood on in our work, we were reminded by Phalguni of the very actual ground on which we were sitting in the garden – a Muslim burial site in Mumbai. The research trip to India and the connection with Phalguni was a reminder to us about the significance of site-specificness and how universal topics are understood and interpreted locally.Â
Phalguni wanted to take this interview to a place where it could become a work in itself. As the exhibition [This Boat with a Broken Rim] unfolded, it became clear that the conversation between us should have a place of its own alongside the work we delivered for the exhibition. The interview was thus born as a special catalogue, a newspaper: ’This Ground That We Stand On’ featuring five artworks from our ’Soft power – a silent battle for hearts and minds’ series (originally published in the Danish newspaper Politiken).
We are proud and excited to present this newspaper to our audience.
We are grateful to the Danish Cultural Institute, New Delhi for generously supporting the publication.Â
