24 September 2010 - 23 October 2010

This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition 'BROWNation' at Gallery Espace, New Delhi in 2010. With text by Siddhartha Chatterjee and a record of a conversation with Kaushik Bhaumik and Vishal K. Dar. Includes notes on works in the present show and an essay on the first BROWNation exhibition held at the Experimental Art Gallery of the Habitat Centre, New Delhi in 2007. With artist biography.

'This second exposition of BROWNation, a solo show by artist Vishal K. Dar, essays a synthesis of the aesthetic and the socio-political to reflect on present conditions. The works include animated videos, print triptychs, photographic postcards, and mixed-media installations that draw on Dar's richly hyphenated practice as a new-media-designer, architect-animator, Kashmiri-Dilliwala and citizen-artist. The titles of the works here begin to indicate this plurality: Khwabistan (DreamLand), Nanga Mulk (Naked Land), C for Cutter, Travels of That Strange Little Brown Man, and I am a Monument.

BROWNation takes a few leaps of faith from a transnational nest, finding a whole world at home. As a form of remembering how things are remembered across moving boundaries, it leaps to engage poetically with the politics of public culture...' - extracted from text by Siddhartha Chatterjee