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THE BODIED SELF |
| Ranjit
Hoskote : Bombay, Summer 2001 |
‘..Jani’s
approach to the bodied self stems from a concern with oblique self portraiture,
a bearing of witness to the conflict between the rational nature that is
presented in public and the instinctive one that is nurtured in secrtet.
Jani’s imagery may be classified off Kalighat.. the artist has skillfully
adapted the style associated with the marketplace painters and printmakers
of 19th century Kolkatta..in recovering an older genre of subaltern cultural
production for contemporary high culture, it may seem that Jani has acted
as an arcvhivist: and yet he re kindles these recovered forms, abrades them
with the friction of an alternate sexuality.. his self portraying intervention
is impelled by laughter: survival as the translation of desire and pain
into a triumphant, comedic act of self assertion... ' |
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