Monday, February 21, 2011

Exhibition titled 'Transformation' to be held at JMI

New Delhi: An exhibition titled "Transformation", organized by four students of the Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), will be held at the university campus from February 21 to 26.

The students that are organizing the exhibition are from the Department of Art History and Art Appreciation at the varsity. They will be donning the roles of curators for the exhibition that is a part of the paper "History of Curational Practices", which is included in their syllabus.

Other institutions that will be participating in the exhibition include Delhi College of Art, Government College of Art in Chandigarh, Tecnia Institute of Art and Design and Banaras Hindu University.

According to one of the student curators for the exhibition Pradeep K. Arya, as curators, their job will be to view various works, select those that will be displayed at the exhibition and provide their perspective on the exhibits by way of captions.

The students whose works have been chosen to be displayed at the exhibition were selected by the four student curators who had viewed all the entries and then chosen the ones that would be displayed.

The theme of the exhibition is "Transformation", which is a "metaphoric process which gets defined through various aspects of human life from birth to death".

The process of transformation while taking into account the social-political issues of gender, class and caste will be explored by the show.

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