Grand Hyatt Mumbai 3 Artwork 2
The following two pictures are of "Basti: An Urban Landscape," by Hema Upadhyay. The description follows the first picture.
Dharavi, Asia's largest slum, a honeycombed city-within-a-city, sustaining a vast population that runs the informal and "unorganized" manufacturing and service sector of Mumbai's economy, forms the artist's central theme. It is, in fact, an intricately. The "basti," or makeshift shantytown settlement, is depicted through scrap metal: houses, temporary lanes and bylanes take their place in the grid, which resembles an aerial view arranged vertically on a wall. This work also functions as a means of representing the dispersal of energy, the patterns of settlement and activity that impart the secret order to what looks, to the casual visitor, like a scenario of chaos. Below the scrap-metal assemblage is a pool of glass by Chintan Upadhyay, containing undelivered postcards and letters from the world of migrant labor and the money-order economy.
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