Apr 12 2022 to Apr 23 2022 10 a.m.

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Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

Bonjour India 2022

Organised within the framework of the fourth edition of Bonjour India, a pan-India festival for the arts, Convergence: A Panorama of Photography’s French Connections in India now travels to the Bangalore International Centre.

Presented in a multidisciplinary arts space over several floors, the exhibition foregrounds significant changes in the medium of photography over time – ranging from posed images of courtesans, a thesaurus of labour imagery captured by the pedagogue-photographer Oscar Mallitte, to the cityscapes of Calcutta (Kolkata) realised by the Magnum photographer, Marc Riboud.

Discover some of these unseen reserves from salient museums in France, placed together for the first time. Heralding almost two centuries since the birth of the medium of photography, much remains to be explored about the cultural intersections of France and India, seen through the eyes of known and unknown image-makers.

Presented by the Ambassade de France en Inde (French Embassy in India), Institut Français en Inde (French Institute in India) and Alliance Française India, in collaboration with the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts.