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Artist Nityan Unnikrishnan's new show is a comment on current events

In Nityan Unnikrishnan's new show, The Way Out, the first impression you get is probably the wrong one

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In his new show, The Way Out, artist Nityan Unnikrishnan has taken static narratives and given them askew perspectives. In Mirror, a mixed media on paper, an elderly couple is in their bedroom. The man is reading the newspaper; the woman is soaking her feet in a tub, pacifying her corns.

On the wall behind them is a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi, next to a painting of one of the scenes from Gujarat riots. Rioter Ashok Mochi, with a headband and an iron rod, is raging against a burning city, as an actual lizard flits between them. In Sunny Afternoon, another mixed media on paper, there's a statue of goddess Durga alongside a lit samadhi in the navel of the sea, while a throng of beach bums navel-gazes.

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