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Convergence
A Panorama of Photography’s French Connections in India
Artists
Bonjour India 2022
Organised within the framework of the fourth edition of Bonjour India, a pan-India festival for the arts, Convergence: A Panorama of Photography’s French Connections in India now travels to the Bangalore International Centre!
Presented in a multidisciplinary arts space over several floors, the exhibition foregrounds significant changes in the medium of photography over time – ranging from posed images of courtesans, a thesaurus of labour imagery captured by the pedagogue-photographer Oscar Mallitte, to the cityscapes of Calcutta (Kolkata) realised by the Magnum photographer, Marc Riboud.
Discover some of these unseen reserves from salient museums in France, placed together for the first time. Heralding almost two centuries since the birth of the medium of photography, much remains to be explored about the cultural intersections of France and India, seen through the eyes of known and unknown image-makers.
Presented by the Ambassade de France en Inde (French Embassy in India), Institut Français en Inde (French Institute in India) and Alliance Française India, in collaboration with the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts.
Artists
Rahaab Allana
Rahaab Allana is a curator and publisher at the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts in New Delhi, India. He is also a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and honorary research associate at the University College, in London, United Kingdom.
He has curated, contributed to and edited several publications and exhibitions on South Asian photography and its trans-national histories, working internationally with museums, universities, festivals and other arts institutions such as The Brunei Gallery in London, United Kingdom; Rencontres d’Arles and Jimei x Arles, France; the Folkwang Museum in Essen, Germany; the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin, Germany; The Fine-Art Museum in Brussels, Belgium; the Rubin Museum in New York, United States; the National Museum and National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi, India; the British Council in New Delhi, India; the Goethe Institute; and the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad City Museum in Bombay, India.
He is the founding and managing editor of PIX, a theme-based photography initiative – an exhibitionary and online platform for South Asian practitioners.
