ABSTRACT
Probing the legacy of surrealism, particularly to Rene Magritte’s famous painting ‘Ceci n’est pas une pipe,’ This is not a … attempts to unravel the European avant-garde in the context of global diasporic circulations. The short video performs an ambivalent homage to three ordinary objects used commonly in an Indian household: a coconut grater, a tongue cleaner, and the idli-mold. These everyday instruments also border on the uncanny, displaced from their familiar context of use into a sparse white environment.
