Exhibition by Anoli Perera

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Posted date:- 07 Feb 2018

Date - 1st February to 1st March 2018
Time - 11:00 am – 7:00 pm (Sundays closed)
Venue - Shrine Empire Gallery, D 395, Defence Colony, New Delhi 110024

Anoli Perera’s recent body of works are a reflection of her life in the megapolis. With the Roman god Janus — the two-faced god of the beginning of conflict and the end of conflict — as a metaphor for the schizophrenia of cities, the artist reflects on issues that plague the contemporary, from migrant labour to surveillance and the triumph of simulacra over lived realities. Ideas of growth and annihilation feed into each other in an endemic cycle. Then comes exodus, and the quest for the next Megapolis.

“The Roman god Janus, a two-faced guardian of doorways represents in the same instance inflow and outflow, the past and the present, becoming and unbecoming, Being Janus-faced is an intricate expression of binaries, two opposites or two conditions. ‘The City, Janus-faced’ builds on this implication. The City, Janus- Faced presents, the located-the dislocated and the constructed-deconstructed. This is a curious act of seeing and showing, the self and the other, muffled together, in the veil of chequered progress, to celebrate and lament our hyper-urban existence, at once.”

Exhibition by Anoli Perera

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