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Scratches on City Maps uncovers the explorations envisaged by select artists to embrace liberation within the expanse of public spaces, extending it further in enclosed setups such as studios, galleries and fairs to break open, negotiate and even puncture norms that entail the institution of art.
As works presented by artists based in Paris, New York City, Berlin, Mumbai, New Delhi and Baroda invoke the viewers to walk with artists, who over here are flaneurs across borders with practices spanning over 10 years, the display open portals to and through the streets in order to look deeper into the exercise of mark making – critically reinvented by using urban art techniques. Acute observers of streets and cities, these marks left behind by the artists pave the way for futures that account for diverse intersectional narratives and represent the desire to reimagine the city’s landscape with gestures of intrepid expressions that are at times spontaneous, at other times calculated, guerilla in their fervor and act, and in that radical.