Sajan Mani’s Dalit protest art
Live MintAt the NOME Gallery in Berlin, rubber runs like a leitmotif through the works on display. The starting point—the artist’s memory of his parents working as rubber tappers in a north Keralavillage—extends to a sociopolitical discourse based on the material and its inextricable link with colonial history and a capitalist present. The works are part of Mani’s first solo in Europe, titled Alphabet Of Touch >< Overstretched Bodies And Muted Howls For Songs, which will be on view till 10 October. “Hand connects with paper in a haptic experience responding to the call of Appachan’s early lament: ‘There was none on the earth to write the story of my race’,” states the curatorial note. One work is accompanied by a text from his “thinking together partner”, Antony George Koothanady, a researcher in comparative literature and performance studies, and offers an entry point to Mani’s practice.
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