Art, Politics, Dissent: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry | Exit Through the Gift Shop | Mona Hatoum: Illuminations | Cindy Sherman: Transformations, 1981/2000

In collaboration with TFAC Studio and Photo Caddy, Mumbai

February 25, 26, 28 2013 | 4.30 pm to 6.30 pm
TFAC Studio, Mumbai

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, 2012
Director: Alison Klayman

This is the inside story of a dissident for the digital age who inspires global audiences and blurs the boundaries of art and politics. First-time director Alison Klayman gained unprecedented access to Ai while working as a journalist in China. Her detailed portrait provides a nuanced exploration of contemporary China and one of its most compelling public figures.

Exit Through the Gift Shop, 2010
Director: Banksy

This is a film by street artist Banksy that tells the story of Thierry Guetta, a French immigrant in Los Angeles, and his obsession with street art. The film charts Guetta’s constant documenting of his every waking moment on film, from a chance encounter with his cousin, the artist Invader, to his introduction to a host of street artists with a focus on Shepard Fairey and Banksy, whose anonymity is preserved by obscuring his face and altering his voice, to Guetta’s eventual fame as a street artist himself.

Cindy Sherman: Transformations,1981/2000

Cindy Sherman creates innovative work that explores the place of women in society. With photographs she takes of herself in which she impersonates various fictitious characters, she shows us the numerous roles women play in our world. She depicts woman as house wife, sex symbol, lover, seductress, victim, monster and more; and makes us wonder about our perceptions. Over the past 25 years, she has produced a body of work that depicts the female persona as seen through the filter of the media. Her work has received much acclaim and has been exhibited and collected widely.

Mona Hatoum: Illuminations

The artist Mona Hatoum came to London from Lebanon in 1975. Working initially with performance and video, and in the 1990s with sculpture and installations, she has exhibited widely around the world. In the summer of 2000 Mona Hatoum presented three major new works which marked the inauguration of Tate Britain, London.These works, exhibited under the title ‘The Entire World as a Foreign Land’ developed Hatoum’s interest in the relationship between individual identity and the notion of a broader cultural and geographic identity, or sense of ‘belonging’.