Curatorial Note | "Anatomy of a Horny Heart" – Affan Baghpati

A curatorial essay and wall text authored for Affan Baghpati's solo showcase "Anatomy of a Horny Heart", presented at Aicon Gallery, New York.

Image: (Left) You know I love you (2021). Assemblage, found objects, cast, brass, polymer resin, epoxy, glass crystals, beads, 9 x 8.66 x 6.7

in. Image courtesy Aicon Contemporary.

(Right) All the things we do (2021). Assemblage, found objects, cast, brass, copper, polymer resin, epoxy, 6.7 x 8.66 x 3.5 in. Image

courtesy Aicon Contemporary.

Essay | Priya and the Wolves (2020)

An essay analysing the development of the Priya comic series (2014 – ongoing), with a focus on its recent efforts to rebrand the protagonist as a young adult, with an eye towards global audiences adapting popular fairytales to socio-political realities of India, written for Critical Collective.

Image: Cover Illustration for Priya and the Wolves (2020) by Melanconnie, copyright (2021) Rattapallax, Inc.

Fiction | As People Do

A short story titled "As People Do", published in the second issue of gulmohar quarterly.