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<font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><strong>The Big
question by Sanjeev Khandekar</strong></font><font size="3"> <br />
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<font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Sanjeev Khandekar
is now known for his shocking, bold and what he terms them as‘short
circuiting’ images. He likes to approach his questions head-on.</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman" size="3">This time his
new exhibition titled as <strong>‘What do I love when I love you, my god?’
opening on 5<sup>th</sup> Dec.2006, at Kitab Mahal, Mumbai,</strong> viewers
will be encountered once again with the mixture of the sacred and profane,
ancient and (post) modern, coded and explicit, opulent and debased,
ornate and horrific, veiled and overt, blasphemous and pious, felonious
and moral, images constructed in the L shaped space of the gallery. </font>
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<font face="Times New Roman" size="3">It is yet interesting
to note that his new works are programmed to get uncovered just after
a week from the famous symposium of world class biologists that was
aimed to discuss ‘Beyond Belief: Science, religion, and survival’
at La Jolla, California. The seminar mainly focused upon ‘what, and
how in place of God?’ and if the answer is Science?</font><font size="3"> <br />
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<font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Among many
questions, Sanjeev khandekar is more vocal on what Kierkegaard mentions
in his ‘fears and trembling’ that there should be a "teleological
suspension of the ethical category" in favor of the religious</font><font face="Verdana" size="3">. </font><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">He
refers to the mythology of Abraham and Issac, where God asks to suspend
the ethical in order to kill his son Isaac. Mythologies are full of
such stories, The great God Shiva asked Shriyal and Changuna to kill
and cook their son Chelaya to meet the requairments of Dharma, or Anasuya
was asked to take away her cloths and serve naked to the ‘Tridevs’
to satisfy their right of prelibation under religious power that they
enjoyed. Sanjeev Khandekar says that one can find some link in these
stories and the faith based politics and science that we are witnessing
today. He points out to the statements of General Boykin during recent
Iraq invasion by US, or statements of Bin Laden provoking innocents
for Jihad, or statements of our domestic leaders who really trigger
off the communal hatred. He says further, that even communists find
cover under such arguments, who use this paradigm to argue that Leninists
had the right to suspend the ethical in order to put their religious
fervor to the test by slaughtering liberal Mensheviks, and millions
of others, after the</font><font face="Verdana" size="3"> </font><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">October revolution</font><font face="Verdana" size="3">. </font>
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<font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The installation
of Sanjeev Khandekar, uses several real antique objects of Indian Gods,
Antique Islamic manuscript, Old objects from church and other religious
places. The market driven life of new man is his favorite theme that
is running through his series of Installations and paintings, poems
and writings. This time he has used the logo of ebay, the super large
cyber mall of the world and a black and white portrait of Pierre Omidyar,
the founder of ‘ebay’.</font><font size="3"> <br />
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<font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Sanjeev Khandekar
refers Freud’s ‘Future of Illusion’ and says that suppressing
the unconscious of male type, the human civilization grew over the years.
God and religion, both had been the supports for the suppression, however
the late capitalism is designed to survive only by a process where unleashing
of unconscious becomes must. ‘I am trying to find connection between
shopping bulimia and religious fundamentalism,’ He added.</font><font size="3"> <br />
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<font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The exhibition
will be open for public viewing from <strong>5<sup>th</sup> Dec to 16<sup>th </sup>
December 2006, excluding Sundays</strong>. </font>
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