Exhibitions

Exhibitions

Signs taken for Wonders – Munish Wadhia

November 16 - December 22, 2019

Vernissage 16/11 at 12-16.
Oil flows down thin threads, over a sewing machine, metal coils and thread rolls tied up in the ceiling. Tigers are drawn onto a black wall, as a thread between the colonial fantasies of matchboxes produced in Sweden, the Swedish principle of neutrality and the state campaign of "en svensk tiger" (the double meaning of "a Swedish tiger" or "a Swede keeps silent”).  In the exhibition Signs taken for Wonders, artist Munish Wadhia returns to the images and objects that surrounded him during his childhood, but with a decolonial gaze that questions their given meanings. Read more