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The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975-1998

Exhibition Tour with Rahaab Allana

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Join curator and publisher at Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, Rahaab Allana, for a special tour of The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975-1998, focusing on lens-based media in the exhibition.

India’s complex postcolonial identity as a nation state anchors this exhibition tour, contesting any singular cultural record of the republic. Focusing on journalistic photographs, montages, as well as art activism deployed through the lens, Allana examines how such images were marked by globalisation, neoliberal capitalism and aspirational trajectories. 

A Charles Wallace grant awardee and Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, Allana was Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Visual Anthropology at University College London. He guest-edited Aperture 243's ‘Delhi: Looking Out/Looking In’ (2021), edited Unframed: Discovering Image Practices in South Asia (2023) and Another Lens: Photography and the Emergence of Image Culture (2024). In 2024, he was awarded Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters from the government of France.

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