I hope we're not dead before getting to the Gateway!" It sure is a hot day, and we find ourselves in agreement with Marcel Odenbach, as we head out of the Taj Mahal Palace. The German artist is no stranger to the country having travelled across Kolkata, Chennai and Delhi. But he is particularly modest when speaking of his own works that encompass the social and political rhetoric — the Nazi rule or the genocide in Rwanda, for instance. Odenbach's oeuvre uses archival material, television footage as well as self-produced pictures, spanning across video art and digital assemblages or collage-like compositions, although he is considered a pioneer in the former.

Tranquil Motions will be Odenbach’s first exhibition in India and highlights complex political and social issues through video art and paperwork. This entailed the construction of gigantic walls