A Japanese who has found a home in Mumbai. What good luck that he happens to be an artist who has turned these formidable differences into works of art accessible to us all.
The exhibtion at Harkat is an immersive one, but in this walk-through we get to really hear what brought Neko to creating these.
After the walk and talk, we invite you to spend your own time exploring all the pieces of this exhibition.
About Neko:
Since 2015, Neko has been compressing the overwhelming resolution of India — its languages, spices, place names, people, and emotions — into the extreme constraints of Japanese palindromes. This corpus, known as Curry Palindromes, now exceeds 1,063 works. What began as a private obsession has developed its own lineage: two official disciples, and others who have independently begun the practice. Since 2022, the archive has been materialized as installation works, exhibited at the Jiri Mahen Library in Brno (Czech Republic), Kyoujima-Eki in Tokyo, Koumyoji Kaikan in Onomichi, and Kala Ghoda Arts Festival in Mumbai. He also runs Art of Pickle, a Japanese fermented food brand rooted in Indian ingredients.
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Dates and Tickets
April 24 · ongoing
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April 25 · ongoing
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April 26 · ongoing
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