Manish Pushkale - Carte Blanche: To Whom the Bird Should Speak?, Musée Guimet Paris

Carte Blanche à Manish Pushkale | To Whom the Bird Should Speak?

Musée national des arts asiatiques – Guimet

This 18th Carte Blanche reaffirms the importance that the Guimet Museum attaches to Indian artists and contemporary art.
For the rotunda on the 4th floor, Manish Pushkale has created a work representing the inexorable disappearance of the Great Andamanese indigenous people through natural disasters, tourism and globalisation. With a cocoon-like installation, the artist invites the visitor to step into a mysterious and forgotten sanctuary. Inside, we discover a visual and abstract representation of the Bo tribe’s now- extinct “language of birds”, whose last speaker, Boa Sr., passed away in 2010. The journey continues through a fragile architectural labyrinth of screens measuring three meters high and nineteen meters wide.

In partnership with Akar Prakar

The exhibition is supported by The Advitya & Kanika Dewan Foundation and ITM-University, Gwalior