Winter 2013-2014

Artist Project / Release Yourself

There’s a party going on

Pradeep Dalal

There is a party going on. Dancers are smiling, singing along, arms flailing, butts swaying, dancing real close, warm-breath-in-the-ear close, crotch-to-crotch close, hand-on-shoulder close. A long way from these freedoms, I look for this party!

Pradeep Dalal is a Mumbai-born artist based in New York. His work was included in the recent exhibition “Stories in the Social Landscape” at the International Center of Photography (ICP) and his essay “A Bifocal Frame of Reference” was published in Western Artists and India (Thames & Hudson, 2013). He is on the faculty at the ICP and the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College.

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