Situated in a liminal historical-political moment, this presentation examines the changing repertoire of street art In the Indian capital over the last five years. I examine the time period between late 2019 to 2025, starting with the dramatic legislative steps spearheaded by the Citizenship Amendment Act, the protests that created new visual imageries introducing visual repertoires that endowed high visibility to bodies that had not previously been seen as a conspicuous part of the public space; lower middle class Muslim women. By March 2020, the lockdown imposed under the pretext of the Covid-19 crisis eliminated the new landscapes and corporeal imagery, thus whitewashing the legislative threat and civic unrest. To date in early 2025, this legislation has not been systematically implemented, but the upcoming census of India (2025) could dramatically change this situation. This presentation discusses two analytical axes related to the ways in which the eliminated images and bodily imageries re-emerged in murals and new visual repertoires in the Indian capital: The first deals with the new visual discourse about hygiene and sanitation that negotiated both with the Covid pandemic. The second ponders on the resuscitated images through a multi-temporal reading of present-absent bodies and Ghostly bodies, inspires and drwaing on scholarly works of Mukul Kesavan and n Anand Vivek Tanja.

Authors:
Ronie Parciack, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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Posted by James Alexander Gordon

Last updated: 2023-02-23 23:45:00

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