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Mahishasura
1996
Mythic combat is compressed into an embrace that is also a struggle. God, demon and human body become inseparable.
Artist field note
Tyeb Mehta
The body caught at the instant of fracture.
Appears inIndia
The five in one idea
Mehta found a visual grammar for rupture - falling, binding, splitting - that made modern history feel bodily.