A Terrible Beauty (Art)
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Before Shakti Mills in Mumbai’s Mahalaxmi neighbourhood became notorious as the location of two brutal gang rapes last August, it was just another of the city’s many abandoned and decaying mill complexes. The Delhi-based artist Meera Devidayal’s A Terrible Beauty presents photographs, paintings and mixed-media works focused on Shakti Mills and similar sites, capturing the striking imagery of their present state: blackened ruins, concrete stumps and rusting girders that rise amid lush greenery.
A Terrible Beauty, until 9 June, Chemould Prescott Road, Queens Mansion, Third Floor, GT Marg, Fort, Mumbai.
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