Aditya Ruia is an independent scholar and researcher based in Mumbai. His area of expertise include the art of Nathdwara and painted photography from the 19th century.

In this presentation, Aditya gives us a brief understanding of how photography played out and operated in the Indic society by focusing on the social life of women as photographic subjects in India during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Watch the session here: https://tinyurl.com/adityaruia

Sahej is primarily a storyteller. His stories weave together fact and fiction, to create counter-mythologies that interrogate the dominant mythologies shaping the present. This myth-world takes the shape of sculptures, performances, films, paintings, installations, and AI programs.

In the virtual studio session, Sahej will trace the formation of the ‘non-human’, from the mythological relationship of demons and disease, to futuristic worlds inhabited by artificial intelligence.

Watch the session here:

https://tinyurl.com/chatterjeeandlal