Now That The World is Ending, Let’s Get Together, 2022
a wrong biennale embassy, 2021/22 at 1.shanthiroad studio/gallery , bangalore

Now That The World is Ending, Let’s Get Together was conceptualized by artist Tasneem Lohani for The Wrong Biennale 2021/22, 5th edition. It was envisioned to be a space for young emerging artists to voice their myriad experiences through the Pandemic using their work. While at the same time support fellow artist practises in this trying time. Initiated via an open call, 8 young Bengaluru based artists, designers and dancers came together, to collaboratively curate and present their work as part of an Embassy exhibition for The Wrong Biennale.

 

The Wrong, founded by artist David Quiles Guilló, is a decentralized global art biennale and tv channel, open to participation, happening both online and offline. An Embassy, in the words of The Wrong Biennale, is a hybrid of a Digital and Physical Exhibition planned anytime from 1st November 2021 to 1st May 2022 i.e. the duration of the 5th edition of The Wrong Biennale’s International Online showcase. 

 

Works in this exhibition ranged from new media installation, and net-based work to performance, sculpture and drawing. Contemporary dancers Rohee Uberoi, Priyanka Lokhande and Aswathy Chandran presented a deeply personal experience of anxiety and frustration during the pandemic through a collaborative performance. While Ojasvi Peshawaria and Mohit Mahato brought to light the politics of economy, gender and violence experienced during this time. Sneha Joshi and Tasneem Lohani talked about the technological shifts brought on by the almost sudden and forced transfer to digital communication in absence of physical connection. And artist and architect Aadit Basu implored us to think about the physicality of isolation in a digital and physical hybrid world post the Pandemic.

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Each artist brought their own personal story and together through this exhibition hoped to create a safe physical space for expression and conversation through which to share collective yet isolated experiences of the pandemic induced lockdowns.

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