Project Showcase@IFA: Degrees of Exclusion of Languages | Poonam Jain | December 2025 скачать в хорошем качестве

Project Showcase@IFA: Degrees of Exclusion of Languages | Poonam Jain | December 2025

'Degrees of Exclusion of Languages' was a session with Poonam Jain, held on Zoom and Facebook Live. Poonam traced the cultural histories, dilemmas, hierarchies, and erasures that languages navigate in order to survive. Implemented under the Arts Practice programme, the project examined the blurring of boundaries between habit and memory, looking at the histories of Mahajani or Modiya lipi (Marwari), Modi lipi (Marathi), Tamil numerals, Devanagari, and Kannada, and created letterpress types for some of them. Poonam works with drawing, installation, text, and gestural works to foreground the intersection of seemingly divergent fields of pedagogy, economy and architecture. She investigates these spaces that one occupies and dwells in at different stages in their lives, looking primarily at language and numbers as some of the common denominators between these spaces. Poonam examines forms of counting in religion, politics, economics, and domestic settings, blurring the lines between these notional spaces to understand the micro-narrative formed by language. Some of her group exhibitions have been in Sapar Contemporary, New York; New Gallery, Paris; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; INSERT 2014, New Delhi. She has had solo exhibitions in Art Dubai by 1x1 art gallery and Clark House Initiative, Bombay. She lives and works in Bombay. This Foundation Project is implemented by India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) under the Arts Practice programme, supported by Sony Pictures Entertainment Fund.