Viewing an exhibition brings about its own kind of experience. ‘Step Inside And You Are No Longer A Stranger’, the first retrospective of the works of Vivan Sundaram, curated by Roobina Karode at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), poses a maze-like puzzle. On the second and third visits I realised that I was no longer a stranger, but a visitant in the spaces of hypertext, a wanderer in a labyrinth, looking perhaps to locate the artist in his work. Proceeding through bends, breaks and contradictions, one realises that the artist works through the principle of disjuncture, an aspect subtly mirrored in the curation.
2 June 2018
