In the fast-changing economical environment of India and ’76 famine, 'Natta" community scattered around West Bengal and they engaged with individual struggle. Where the native land is preoccupied with brahminical hierarchy and counter-culture was deeply manipulated by the cultural industry to create a hegemonic and atomized mental operation around the suppressed proletariat Natta community. The counter-cultural practicing communities are still unaware about them being exploited; it can be assumed, that the idea of counter-culture itself becomes hegemonic.
Title- untitled Medium- monoprint on paper Dimension- 24’’x 11’’
Title- untitled i Medium- monoprint on handmade paper Dimension- 8’’x 11’’
Title- untitled ii Medium- monoprint on handmade paper Dimension- 8’’x 11’’
Title- untitled Medium- Found Object Dimension- 30’’x 34’’
I studied and revisit subaltern struggle from my own past experiences of violence, regional hegemony around my native fieldwork area. With using a post-structural framework, I try to understand more deeply about that heterogeneous group of people, those who are not able to acknowledge their present exploitation. By collectively archiving oral evidence from various subaltern (Gramscian sense) groups of people I'm trying to archive their short narratives, those expose alienation, precariousness, agitation, resistance against the state agendas.
Title- Poems of seven lines Medium- Wood , Paper clay, found object Dimension- 8’’x 11’’
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Lumpen-proletariat always had their own linguistic attitudes and word vocabulary, as their visual elements we can find Bat-tala paintings, kali ghat painting, folk theatrical posters, and b grade adult posters, are always represented subalterns own aesthetics as an alternative language of pre-colonised and colonised orients of the elite class. (Burglarize.) In the early 1980s raising of subaltern historians and scholars, its remarks a deep impact on subaltern literature and visual arts.
In the processes of my practice, I collectively document sight-related images, videos, interviews, social media, newspapers, related articles and found materials, and archive subaltern texts and visual representations .I was trying to see my practice with literary perspective influenced by poems, theatrical representations, short narratives, and popular images.
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