Guided Walk
Vaanyerum Vizhuthugal
Arnika Ahldag
Join us for a guided walk of our latest exhibition Vaanyerum Vizhuthugal: Roots that reach the sky, led by Arnika Ahldag from the MAP team.
Initially exhibited as part of the Chennai Photo Biennale 2024-2025, this is the first group exhibition dedicated to contemporary photography and lens-based practices at MAP. Vaanyerum Vizhuthugal (translating to “Roots that Reach for the Sky”), curated by Jaisingh Nageswaran, brings together the works of twelve lens-based artists of Tamil origin who push the boundaries of photography and visual storytelling.
This will provide a richer understanding of their contributions to contemporary photography and the diverse narratives they present.
This exhibition is a project by Goethe-Institut Chennai and Chennai Photo Biennale.
The programming is in collaboration with the Goethe Institute/Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore.
Bookings
Bookings are closed for this event.
Arnika Ahldag
Director - Exhibitions & Curation
Arnika Ahldag is the Director – Exhibitions & Curation at MAP. As an art historian her interests cover the representation of labour in Indian contemporary art, institutional critique, exhibition histories and archives. She holds a PhD from the School of Arts and Aesthetics at JNU and an MA from University College in London, UK and Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg, Germany. Her curatorial projects include the public programme for IAF 2020 and Mapping Gender: Bodies and Sexualities in the Global South at the Jawaharlal Nehru University.
She co-founded the Feminist Syllabus, which is part of the workshop series Pact of Silence, How to break it, a programme for intersectional feminist discourses in the arts. Over the past years she lectured at the National School of Drama and OP Jindal Global University in New Delhi.
