[Coat]ed Desires- Retrofitting Sarpa Satra – Nitin Hadap

Many contemporary art practices are multidisciplinary forms. Dr Nitin Hadap has evolved his art practice through sartorial studies, art history and an illustrative mythology based interpretation.

This was a unique display was a combination of theatre as a venue, wearable clothing canvases stitched based on traditional Indian garments of Barabandi, Choga, Angarkha and painted with narratives related to Sarpa Satra – the legendary Snake Sacrifice and anecdotes from the literature of Mahabharata. 

Faandee supported the exhibition through comprehensive stages of conceptualising the experience holistically through display design, viewer’s movement and physical interactivity, material use, audience engagement, and a performative act annotating the narrative of entering a Chakravyuha – a battle formation. 
The exhibition thrusted on the cognition of the multicultural coexistence, plurality of shared beliefs, the positions of subaltern all driven and coated by desires-hidden and explicit.

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