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Painting Dream Sequences For Collective Healing

Kochi-Muziris Biennale

Painting Dream Sequences For Collective Healing

Nepal-based artist Mekh Limbu feels that while it is important to talk about suffering and suppression, conversations around the process of healing are equally important. Through his paintings, which depict dream sequences, he is striving to preserve Adivasi tradition and languages

Dream Sequence: A video displaying the grandmother God, who is the residing deity of the Limbu co
Dream Sequence: A video displaying the grandmother God, who is the residing deity of the Limbu co Artworks: Mekh Limbu

Ancestral spirits are roaming around the graveyard. God, the omnipresent protector, is a grandmother. She is seen with her halo. There are hills in the background. The stunning backdrop looks ethereal. Is this a dream? Well, these are videos that depict dream sequences.

At a time when Adivasi communities across the globe bear the pangs of dispossession, Nepal-based artist Mekh Limbu’s videos, archival documents nad digital paintings are on display at the fifth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale.

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