Hema Upadhyay
Moderniznation
Archive 2011
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Moderniznation
Concept, Hema Upadhyay
Production Festival d’Automne à Paris
Moderniznation will be part of FIAC.
Hema Upadhyay is a visual artist whose work is rooted in her personal experience – her parents’ move from Pakistan to India, her own move to Mumbai – but evokes more generally the mutations of contemporary India and the theme of migration. The cities she depicts reflect the organic, haphazard development of Mumbai – a colorful labyrinth which nonetheless betrays deep social inequalities