As If - III Country of the Sea

Feb. 21, 2015 - April 9, 2015
DR. BHAU DHAJI LAD MUSEUM, Mumbai

The city premiere of the widely-travelled film From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf. In other antagonisms: labour deep inside containers, voyeurs in the busiest shipping channel, lists arguing with lists, photographs of other photographs, and a wall-map titled The Country of the Sea. A counterpoint to both the imperial 'view from the boat', and to contemporary metaphors of the 'liquidity' and 'flow' of oceanic and global relations.

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Gallery: As If - III Country of the Sea

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As If (I-V)

As If – I Rock, Paper, Scissors
EXPERIMENTER, Kolkata
January 7 - February 20 2015

As If – II Flight of the Black Boxes
24 JORBAGH, New Delhi
January 27 - February 24 2015

As If – III Country of the Sea
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February 21 - April 7 2015

As If – IV Night For Day
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As If – tV
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March 29 - May 20 2015

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