Known for series such as Miracle Robots and Daydreaming Sameer Tawde is a visual artist and photographer currently based in Mumbai, India. In 2013 and 2014, he was invited to the FUKUOKA ASIAN ART MUSEUM, Japan, and MUSEUM QUAI BRANLY, PARIS FRANCE. In 2012, he was nominated for the Paul Huf Award. His works largely involve humor and play with a fictional approach and are often interlaced with a documentary and an imaginary eye. In the course of her research on the Cold War, Potnis came across an ideological contest that became well-known as “The Kitchen Debate”, between the Vice President of the USA at the time, Nixon, and Soviet Minister-President Khrushchev. In the context of the American National Exhibition in Moscow 1959, the debate about the advantages and disadvantages of communism and capitalism in front of live cameras in the kitchen of an American model house. Her work explores the connections between intimate and public worlds and the topographies that influence global politics and economics. Prajakta Potnis based in Mumbai India, working in photography, painting, sculpture, and installations. Her work has been widely exhibited and collected by museums globally.
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