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Consulate General of Switzerland organises Waste Land exhibition in Mumbai

Updated On: 10 June, 2018 07:25 AM IST | Kusumita Das

Seven artists reimagine debris to explore how waste is a container for memory

Used and discarded cigarette butts by Prashant Pandey

As part of the biennale public diplomacy campaign"70 Years of Swiss Indian Friendship", the Consulate General of Switzerland in Mumbai has organised an exhibition titled Waste Land. The TS Eliot-inspired title attempts to looks at waste with new eyes. While it refers to trash, the exhibition also looks at how the refuse of society also contains memory. Seven contemporary Indian artists will be displaying their works created entirely of waste material.

Art historian Birgid Uccia is the brains behind this initiative."The idea is to link waste to personal and collective memory and change the way society sees waste — something that's unhygienic and impure, that needs to be gotten rid of immediately. What people don't realise is that waste shows you trends in consumption, production, demographics, individual behaviour and memory. There's so much stored in waste that is invisible. The artists, therefore, have use various kinds of discarded material to point at what's invisible."

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