Join us for a talk by Iftikhar Dadi reflecting on Pop South Asia, an exhibition that spotlighted artworks engaging with popular culture in South Asia.  

Pop South Asia: Artistic Explorations in the Popular was a major exhibition on South Asian art engaging with popular culture. Spanning works from the mid-twentieth century to the present, the exhibition showcased an intergenerational dialogue through more than 100 artworks by artists from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and its diasporas. It spotlighted artists who intervene in the aesthetics of print, cinematic and digital media, alongside those engaging with devotional practices, crafts, and folk culture; it presented artists addressing modes of local capitalism, from large-scale industries to vernacular bazaars, in company with those commenting on identity, politics, and borders.  

Pop South Asia framed the region as a vantage point into developments that are regional and global, as much as they are subnational and national. It consequently brought to light practices relevant to parallel regions across the world, equally shaped by forces of capitalism and media as they continue to modernise and urbanise.  

Free and open to the public with registration.