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Homelands, one of the year’s most anticipated exhibitions opens in four cities across India in 2013.

28 of the world’s leading contemporary artists from the British Council Collection:

Angus Boulton | Fabien Cappello | Lisa Cheung | Nathan Coley | Jeremy Deller |  Suki Dhanda | Jimmie Durham | Paul Graham | Graham Gussin | Mona Hatoum | Anthony Haughey | Tim Hetherington | Susan Hiller | David Hockney | Anthony Lam | Langlands & Bell | Richard Long | Rachel Lowe | Haroon Mirza | Raymond Moore | Cornelia Parker | Martin Parr | Grayson Perry | Zineb Sedira | George Shaw | David Shrigley | Bob and Roberta Smith | Gillian Wearing.

Curated by Latika Gupta, ‘Homelands’ is a unique take on contemporary British art by an Indian curator asking what, in the 21st century, ‘home’ really means.
 Delhi | Kolkata | Mumbai | Bengaluru
From January 2013
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Where do you call home?
Homeland is usually defined as the country of origin, one’s native or ancestral place, the country of our national identity. Today many of us live our lives across different cities and countries, through hyphenated identities: belonging here and there; traveling from one life to another; inhabiting multiple places – both physical and metaphorical. What then constitutes a homeland? Is it ethnicity? Language? Religion? Customs and beliefs?

 

Homelands cuts to the heart of cultural relations in the 21st century, exploring ideas of belonging and alienation, possession and loss, public histories and personal memories, nostalgic geographies and the intangible terrains of the imaginary.

For further information contact: arts.india@britishcouncil.org
https://www.britishcouncil.org.in/homelands

Image:

Untitled from series Shopna 2002, Suki Dhanda, 125 x 125 cm, C-Type print mounted on aluminium, © The Artist.