[Announcements] Alien Waters, IIC Gallery

[Ravi Agarwal]

You are invited to

alien waters

  An exhibition of photographic works (2004-2006) by Ravi Agarwal



and release of the book on the work

immersion.emergence



from October 24 to November 1, 2006, 11 am to 7 pm, daily

IIC Annexe Art Gallery, Lodhi Road, New Delhi

In collaboration with Youthreach and India International Centre



associated events

Talking photography: Photographers talk about their practice and  
engagements with photography. Moderated by Sunil Gupta, photographer  
and curator, in collaboration with Khoj International Artists'  
Association. October 24, 4:30 pm to 8 pm.

Photography revisited: Jeet Thayil, Rana Dasgupta, Sarnath Banerjee  
and Sheba Chacchi speak about their relationship to photographs.  
October 26, 4:30 pm to 8 pm

The river is in the city’s margins. It is very dirty, filthy. The  
city does not need it any more. Its future is pre-configured, the  
river is ‘dead.’ It will now be cleaned but not like a life giving  
artery, but a sparkling necklace, adorning a new globality of the  
city. There was a time when the river was its ecology as the city and  
the river shaped each other. Now the relationship is only with land,  
which the river holds in its belly. Violent. Thousands of poor are  
thrown out, for the new stadiums, temples, bridges and pathways their  
futures uncertain. Death, the predominant Hindu relationship to life  
in the cycle of rebirth has a timeless resonance as ashes are  
immersed in the waters. But what will the rebirth be?

The self, seeking to recover a relationship in the new alienation,  
even as the river becomes a muse and metaphor for a search, within  
and without. The first bird I saw on the riverbank thirty years ago  
came back and changed my life as I attempted to regain a personal  
ecology as a photographer/activist. My organic body is now extended  
by the inorganic body of the city. The river is alive, throbbing in  
my veins resonating unresolved questions of spirit and sense. The  
engagement with the triad of the self, the city and the river,  
becomes a reclamation of the self. I photograph even as I experience  
other human abandonment. I go back, again and again, endlessly,  
searching.

  
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