Book launch: India 50/50

The Art Book India 50/50  (Mexico: Urobosos Basilisco 2015 will be  launched by Jean-Philippe Imbert (SALIS) at the Mexico City International Book Fair, Palacio de Mineria, Mexico City, on Sunday February 21. The book comes from the exhibition INDIA 50/50 by Mexican visual artist Alejandro Gómez de Tuddo,  which opened on October 7 in Delhi, on the occasion of the Delhi Photo Festival 2015. One half of the Exhibition, India 50/-, had previously premiered in the Copper House Gallery, Dublin, in April 2015, courtesy of EROSS at DCU and Conaculta (Mexico). After Dublin and Delhi, INDIA 50/50 went to Bangalore, shown at the renowned  Tasveer Gallery (http://tasveerjournal.com/2015/12/04/india-5050/).

INDIA 50 / 50 shows 50 black and white photographs, printed on fine art cotton paper. This kaleidoscope of visual processes is such that when we look at each photograph, it is not the actual photo that we see, for the photograph itself is rendered invisible. We see something un-classifiable: it resists language, as it is without signs or marks — we see something which simply is, illustrating that in India and in these photographs, everything is impossible or possible.  Each image formulates a new non-semiotic discourse of photography — an original framework in which photography steps beyond the shackles of classification. These photos are thus about India and not about India. These photos transcend the normal boundaries of the everyday by moving the activity of viewing from a transparent relationship of meaning and expression to a level in which meaning seems to be there without the presence of subjectivity. The places of India become one Indian space, which merges with our photographic journey. The Mexican Embassy in Ireland has published a podcast related to the Dublin India 50 exhibition. More can be found from the Bangalore event here.