Atul Dodiya
(1959)
Sleeping with the Stars
The present lot, created in 2005, is part of a series of mixed media paper-pulp and print works made by the artist over the course of his residency at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute. In this series, Dodiya explores and updates the story of the tribal woman, Sabari, one of the many narratives contained within the epic Ramayana. Dodiya, however, uses the chronicle of Sabari’s lifelong devotion to Ram to explore the ways in which the epic is...
The present lot, created in 2005, is part of a series of mixed media paper-pulp and print works made by the artist over the course of his residency at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute. In this series, Dodiya explores and updates the story of the tribal woman, Sabari, one of the many narratives contained within the epic Ramayana. Dodiya, however, uses the chronicle of Sabari’s lifelong devotion to Ram to explore the ways in which the epic is currently being misappropriated in the name of right-wing politics. As a result, this series of work can be read as “…a critical engagement with a history of India, a claim to the shaping of India’s future as a space of inclusiveness”, and one that calls for “…a fresh valuation of the past… a realisation of the fatuity of monolithic interpretations of tradition, identity and belonging” (Ranjit Hoskote, “The Amplitudes of Connection”, The Wet Sleeves of My Paper Robe, Bodhi Art exhibition catalogue, Singapore, 2006, p. 25).
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65
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WINTER AUCTION 2009
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$6,000 - 7,000
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$10,925
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Atul Dodiya Sleeping with the Stars
Signed and dated in English (lower right)
The mixed media used is 4-colour lithograph, digital print, gold leaf, flocking, cotton shirt, vine charcoal sticks, screen printing ink, paper pulp and handmade paper box on stained handmade STPI cotton and linen paper
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