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Sumedha Raikar-Mhatre: The writing on the wall

<p>Twenty minds turn art on its head, choosing to use not pictures, but text to discuss urban alienation, gender inequality and consumerism</p>

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Vidya Kamat's collage of women's protest slogans seen in the Text as Text series. They fit into Kamat's series on multi-lingual slogans that articulate women's anger, frustration, defiance and rebellion.
Vidya Kamat's collage of women's protest slogans seen in the Text as Text series. They fit into Kamat's series on multi-lingual slogans that articulate women's anger, frustration, defiance and rebellion.

Don't tell me not to go out, tell HIM not to rape; Kapde nahi, soch badlo (Not clothes, change your mindset); Mazhe shareer, mazha hakka! (My body, my right) — this is no mere sampling of protest slogans but a wall poster series titled, She Said, by artist Vidya Kamat. She has zeroed in on 80-odd multi-lingual women's slogans that carry an expression of anger, frustration, defiance and rebellion. Of these, three key ones have found their way to Text as Text, an ongoing group show at Worli's Art and Soul gallery.

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