ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses a small temporal window of art production related to the reflection of the city and how artworks experiment with new ways of exhibiting in urban space. A work made for gallery space is The Yamuna Series, a triptych of moving lightboxes that engage a female gaze onto the changing city and the environment, with several layers of visual representation and some in slow motion. Gigi Scaria’s work reflects socio-economic inequalities that are connected to the hungry tide of urban development and real estate. Cultural productions like art are a good lens on the ways in which people make and engage with spatial and changing environments and imaginaries. The aim of the public art event was to stimulate a lively dialogue between artists and urban sites around the issue of the environment, climate change, the scarcity of water, clean air and green in the city.
