Multi/new media artist Afrah Shafiq’s first solo show takes as its starting point the beautifully illustrated children’s books distributed by the Soviet Union across India from the 1950s to the 1980s, and branches out in different directions. There is an old-fashioned video game that takes you down rabbit holesshow’s title is borrowed), a dissident poet who wrote nonsense verse as well as children’s books, but whose books, tellingly, never made it to India in translation.
EXPERIMENTS WITH ART
Feb 17, 2024
2 minutes
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