Climate change and art: Focussing the lens on food
India, Feb. 1 -- Making food both material and metaphor, the city is witnessing an exhibition examining how climate stress, shifting seasons and labour systems are reshaping everyday life in India. Using fruit, milk and food networks as entry points, the ongoing show Sustaina India 3.0: Bitter Nectar explores the uneasy intersections of ecology, consumption and care.
Curated by artist duo Thukral and Tagra, the exhibition takes its title from the contradiction embedded in sweetness itself. "Bitter Nectar inquires into the hidden complexities within our simplest desire for sustenance. It reveals how deeply labour, care, ecology and privilege are entwined in what we consume," Thukral. Tagra adds, "It's not to question or hold blame, but to invite people to stay with the asynchronous - the temporal mismatches of seasons and crop patterns, and to discover the intricacies of climate action and the resilience seen in community-led interventions."
At the core of the exhibition are works by three artists, each rooted in a distinct landscape and food system. Mrugen Rathod's sculptural installations, centred on the 'aam-sher', examine mango monocultures and forest ecologies in Gir, Gujarat, where conservation and extraction collide. Anuja Dasgupta turns to the apricot to reflect on seasonal knowledge and climate vulnerability in Ladakh, drawing from personal ideas of home. Vedant Patil traces the movement of milk across rural-urban networks, revealing the invisible labour and infrastructure that sustain daily consumption in Delhi-NCR....
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