mithu sen on 'selective seeing'
India, Dec. 28 -- After eight years, artist Mithu Sen will present her solo exhibition which brings together drawings, sculptures, videos and performances. The exhibition explores blindness not as a medical state but a political condition- "shaped by selective seeing, curated truths, and collective denial," said Sen. In a world where social media edits reality, where militarism frames vision, and comfort replaces conscience, sight becomes unreliable, and blindness becomes systemic. The show is an invitation to unlearn the visible. A call to recognise the violence of what has been erased "by design"-and to confront the unseen worlds we continue to shadow, added Sen.
In the seven-panel work The Blind Leading the Blind, reclaims Netherland's renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder's The Blind Leading the Blind (1568) not as a historical parable, but as a living political condition. By fragmenting the original single tableau into seven panels, the work disrupts linear narrative and refuses a singular point of view....
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