Vadehra Art Gallery is pleased to showcase a solo presentation of Gauri Gill in the 'Voices' section of Paris Photo curated by Devika Singh. From 13–16 November, the installation will feature Gill's striking series The Village on the Highway created between January to December 2021 as a visual homage to the creative ingenuity of farmers contesting the proposed deregulation of agriculture that would further imperil their already fragile livelihoods. Gill was drawn to what she has called 'an unusual, handmade and homegrown architecture of resistance, in which doors appeared through tarpaulin, and walls arose from bamboo'. Through this work, she highlights the struggle's inspired strategies, as well as it's unique temporality over a long year. The ephemeral structures that housed the farmers revealed the dignified tenacity of these rural workers; and their photographic record marks a continuation of her practice which has continually focused on 'how people in precarity find ways to float, rather than drown' In a unique presentation, Gill chooses to ground the space within the corporality of the protest site. Bringing in the materials used by the farmers as a way to frame the photographs, she reinforces the urgent inventiveness of scarce rural resources.

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